SOLUTION: If a DNA strand doubles every 20 minutes, how many strands would you have any 24 hour period?

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Question 1100928: If a DNA strand doubles every 20 minutes, how many strands would you have any 24 hour period?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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that would be 2^72 since there are 1440/20=72 twenty minute periods per day.
That would be 4.72*10^21 strands.