A scientist is studying bacteria whose cell population doubles at constant intervals, at which times each cell in the population divides simultaneously. four hours from now, immediately after the population doubles, the scientist will destroy the entire sample. how many cells will the population contain when the bacteria is destroyed? (1) the population just divided and, since the population divided two hours ago, the population has quadrupled, increasing by 3,750 cells. (2) the population will double to 40,000 cells with one hour remaining until the scientist destroys the sample.