How often do bacteria reproduce?

Answer 1

It depends upon the environmental conditions and the particular species, but as a general Answer: Exponentially.

Specifically, under Ideal {standard laboratory} Conditions, an E-coli bacterium will [repeatedly] reproduce once during each (and every continuing) 20 minute interval(s).

Answer 2

Bacteria double and keep reproducing continuously. It is convenient to assume that this doubling occurs every 20 minute. Interestingly this means that a cleaning product that kills 99% of the bacteria on a surface and leaves 1% is up to 4% of the original number at the end of the first hour, 32% at the end of the second and back to full strength after another 40 minutes or so.

Answer 3

if the conditions are favourable then the average time for a bacteria to reproduce is from 15 to 20 minutes. their offspring increases exponentially, which is expressed as 2x. with this rate 1 bacteria can produce 1 million cells in 7 hours.

Answer 4

some species of bacteria reproduce around 15 to 20 minutes

Answer 5

Binary fission occurs in every 20 mins.