Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
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ISBN: 9781118743164
Author: Jacquelyn G. Black, Laura J. Black
Publisher: WILEY
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Because bacteria are able to replicate at high rates, they are subjected to mistakes or mutations being made in their nucleotide sequence. For example, the nucleotide sequence in a gene coding for a protein might be AATTGGCCA but because of mutation might become GGTTGGCCA. How may such a mutation become beneficial to the bacterium? How may it become harmful?

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