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Nutrient fluctuations and cell consequences during a bet‐hedging strategy. Bacteria develop phenotypic heterogeneity during changes in environmental conditions (Environment A to B), and a bet‐hedging strategy results in subpopulations of cells with different fitness. While cells with low fitness are subjected to different outcomes (e.g., sporulation), the fitter cells thrive. Eventually, (change to Environment C) the cells display the diversity in phenotypes by a random switch
