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.
The bacterial cell then elongates and splits into two daughter cells each with identical DNA to the parent cell. Each daughter cell is a clone of the parent cell. When conditions are favourable such as the right temperature and nutrients are available, some bacteria like Escherichia coli can divide every 20 minutes. This means that in just 7 hours one bacterium can generate 2,097,152 bacteria. After one more hour the number of bacteria will have risen to a colossal 16,777,216.