A microbe reproduces by binary fission every 20 minutes under favorable conditions. if you started with one cell, how long would 10 generations take and how many bacteria would be present if all the conditions were just right

The correct answer is "3 hours 20 minutes, producing 1,024 bacteria".

The reproduction of bacteria by binary fission occurs logarithmically at the log phase of bacterial growth. The doubling time of this particular microbe will be 20 minutes therefore in 3 hours 20 minutes, the original number (1) of the microbe will increase to 1000.