Escherichia coli commonly referred to as E coli is essential for modern biotechnology research One reason for this is the ease and speed at which E coli can be cultivated in the laboratory Under ideal laboratory conditions when this bacterium is grown in a nutrient broth medium the number of cells in a culture doubles approximately every 19 minutes Suppose an initial colony of 150 E coli bacteria are to be used for an experiment Use the exponential growth model Y Yoekt where t is measured in minutes to write an exponential growth function for bacteria colony Round the growth constant k to four significant figures The exponential growth function that models growth of the E coli colony is Approximately how many bacteria will be present in the colony after 135 minutes Round the solution to the nearest whole number Approximately bacteria will be present in the colony after 135 minutes Determine how long it will take for the bacteria colony to reach 100 000 000 bacteria Round the solution to the nearest whole number The bacteria colony will reach a population of 100 000 000 after minutes