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To determine: The time taken for a single mutant strain of bacteria that can divide in 15 minutes to overtake 1 million wild-type strains of bacterial population, which can divide in 20 minutes assuming that food is available in plentiful and there is no cell death.

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To explain: Number of cells both wild-type and mutant-type present in the culture at t = 1200 min.

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