Before revision: Recent advances in quantifying phenotypic heterogeneity in bacteria have shown its broad prevalence in nature. However, evaluating the ultimate impact of URLanism heterogeneity at the population level remains an active area of research in microbiology. We show that the generalized Fibonacci recurrence provides a simple, mathematically rigorous and computationally tractable model for heterogeneous bacterial growth.
After revision:  provides a simple, mathematically rigorous and computationally tractable model for heterogeneous bacterial growth.