Zombie Bacteria are Not as Harmful

Bacteria usually has a harmless cell cycle similar to the eukaryotic cycle, but shift into high gear when they find themselves in nutrient-rich conditions. They double in size and divide as often as once every 20 minutes. Since it takes a bacterium 40 minutes to completely copy its DNA, how can it divide once every 20 minutes? To make everything come out right, bacteria employ "multifork replication": they initiate new rounds of DNA copying before the first round ...