How does a bacterium know it's time to split apart?

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Mar 8, 2024, 10:32 am158 pts
Bacterial cells do not wake up one morning and decide to become parents. But there is a point in their cell cycle—after growing sufficiently and replicating their genomes—when they split in two, creating new cells that then repeat the process. What tells the bacterium that it's time to split apart?…

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