Question Antibiotics and antibacterial products have saved a countless number of lives. With all the good that antibiotics have brought to the world, an unforeseen problem has surfaced. As more antiobiotics are used, bacteria are adapting to the selective pressures imposed on them by humans. Natural selection has acted on bacteria, creating new strains (genetic variants of a species) of bacteria with mutations coding for antibiotic resistance. The new strains produced from the subtle mutations in bacterial DNA over a short period of time can best be described as which type of evolution? A microevolution B macroevolution n artificial evolution D punctuated equilibrium

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Antibiotics and antibacterial products have saved a countless number of lives. With all the
good that antibiotics have brought to the world, an unforeseen problem has surfaced.
As more antiobiotics are used, bacteria are adapting to the selective pressures imposed on
them by humans. Natural selection has acted on bacteria, creating new strains (genetic
variants of a species) of bacteria with mutations coding for antibiotic resistance.
The new strains produced from the subtle mutations in bacterial DNA over a short period
of time can best be described as which type of evolution?
A
B
с
D
microevolution
macroevolution
artificial evolution
punctuated equillibrium
Transcribed Image Text:Question 17 Antibiotics and antibacterial products have saved a countless number of lives. With all the good that antibiotics have brought to the world, an unforeseen problem has surfaced. As more antiobiotics are used, bacteria are adapting to the selective pressures imposed on them by humans. Natural selection has acted on bacteria, creating new strains (genetic variants of a species) of bacteria with mutations coding for antibiotic resistance. The new strains produced from the subtle mutations in bacterial DNA over a short period of time can best be described as which type of evolution? A B с D microevolution macroevolution artificial evolution punctuated equillibrium
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