Word: fissionability
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Some exciting statistics of Dean Kendall's: Many microbes reproduce (by fission) in 15 minutes. If this rate were kept up for 96 generations (24 hours), the descendants of one parent cell would number more than 78 octillions. (There are only 31 trillion seconds in a million years!) These unthinkable populations are held in check, however, by competition, lack of food, poisons, etc. At a moderate estimate, 30 trillions of bacteria are excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus...