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.
Bacteria divide by binary fission which simply means that one cell splits in two. As a separate matter, there is a process called conjugation for transfer of genetic information that is completely different than binary fission. The bacterial organism would then start to divide and multiply. Some bacteria can form spores when it cannot survive very well (such as in freezing temperature) and then take off the spore barrier when multiplication and feeding conditions are better.