Abstract
The effect of nutrition on the relation between growth rate and cell arrangement, cell size, and macro-molecular composition in Bacillus subtilis is described in comparison to earlier observations with other bacteria. Improvements in nutrition resulted in faster growth rates but, although the mass and size of the replicating unit (i.e. cell number/chain) also increased, there was no change in the mass or size of the individual cell. This constant cell size and variable cell arrangement in B. subtilis is in contrast to other bacteria and requires new proposals for the control of cell size and arrangement in different bacteria.
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