Today the Bowflex brand is also a significant competitor in the treadmill. Bowflex, Inc. first made its name with tension-based home gyms in the 1980s. Today the Bowflex brand is also a significant competitor in the treadmill market, offering unique alternatives for cardio training. They sell fitness equipment directly to consumers and through major retailers. BowFlex is based in Vancouver, Washington.
Growth is shown as L = log(numbers) where numbers is the number of colony forming units per ml, versus T (time.). Bacterial growth is the asexual reproduction, or cell division, of a bacterium into two daughter cells, in a process called binary fission. Providing no mutational event occurs the resulting daughter cells are genetically identical to the original cell. Hence, local doubling of the bacterial population occurs.
Binary fission is an effective way for bacteria to reproduce, however it does produce problems. Since the cells produced through this type of reproduction are identical, they are all susceptible to the same types of antibiotics. In order to incorporate some genetic variation, bacteria use a process called recombination.