ndividual bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics by genetically changing to resist chemicals that harm them.
Answer
False
True
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antibiotics-have-been-aro&page=2
it is somewhere in here and im pretty sure it is false but i just want to make sure. Thanks in advance (:

Question

ndividual bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics by genetically changing to resist chemicals that harm them.
Answer
		False
		True
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antibiotics-have-been-aro&page=2
it is somewhere in here and im pretty sure it is false but i just want to make sure. Thanks in advance (:

anonymous · Answer

This is true to a degree. Read more here: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/meade_callahan.html

anonymous · Answer

Antibiotics do not, in themselves, cause resistance. Instead, they allow naturally resistant variants within a population to survive and reproduce while those individuals without the resistance factor die. Once in a bacterial population, antibiotic resistance can spread rapidly. Even unrelated bacteria can gain resistance from their neighbors in a phenomenon called horizontal gene transfer. Resistance to antibiotics is encoded in DNA, the genetic blueprint for life. Bacteria are able to exchange DNA, especially in the form of plasmids (small, self-replicating circles of DNA) and pass resistance very rapidly.

preetha · Answer

Sounds true to me.