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.
Some Unusual Forms of Reproduction in Bacteria: There are groups of bacteria that use unusual forms or patterns of cell division to reproduce. Some of these bacteria grow to more than twice their starting cell size and then use multiple divisions to produce multiple offspring cells. Some other bacterial lineages reproduce by budding. Still others form internal offspring that develop within the cytoplasm of a larger mother cell.