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Can transformation only be performed using plasmid DNA containing antibiotic resistant genes R factors?
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The term antibiotic resistant refers to bacteria that?
survive the presence of an antibiotic
How will you identify cells carrying the recombinant plasmid?
The transformants are selected for on agar containing an appropriate antibiotic. For example if your recombinant plasmid contains a kanamycin cassette, then only the cells containing the plasmid will grow on an agar plate containing kanamycin. PCR can then be performed on the colonies to ensure they contain your gene of interest on the plasmid.
How might individual bacterium become resistant to an antibiotic?
it inherited the allele that made it resistant
Which type of adaptation develops quickly in bacteria that are antibiotic resistant?
Phenotypic adaptation
Please define resistant colony from a microbiology standpoint?
Resistant colonies are small colonies found in the zone of inhibition around an antibiotic disk.
What does resistant or susceptible mean?
These terms refer to antibiotic sensitivities; antibiotic resistant organisms versus antibiotic susceptible organisms.
How is the presence of antibiotic resistance used as a marker in bacterial transformation?
Antibiotics will kill off all of the bacteria that have not mutated and formed a resistance to the drug. Those that have a resistance to the antibiotics will survive and multiply into many resistant bacterium. This continuously facilitates the production of new kinds of antibiotic resistant bacteria
What is antibiotic resistant bacteria?
Also known as "superbugs", antibiotic resistant bacteria have evolved to a point that our usual antibiotics won't kill them. VRE and MRSA are common forms of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
The term antibiotic resistant refers to bacteria that?
survive the presence of an antibiotic
What is antibiotic resistant bacterium is?
superbug.
Why has there been a large increase of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria?
Overuse of traditional antibiotics has caused a selection of those bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic.
How will you identify cells carrying the recombinant plasmid?
The transformants are selected for on agar containing an appropriate antibiotic. For example if your recombinant plasmid contains a kanamycin cassette, then only the cells containing the plasmid will grow on an agar plate containing kanamycin. PCR can then be performed on the colonies to ensure they contain your gene of interest on the plasmid.
What is co amoxilclav an what it is use for?
Co-amoxiclav is an approved British name for the combination antibiotic containing compounds such as amoxicillin trihydrate, a beta-lactam antibiotic, with potassium clavulanate, and a beta-lactamase inhibitor. The combination yields an antibiotic with an increased spectrum of action and restored efficacy against amoxicillin-resistant bacteria that produce beta-lactamase.
What is an antibiotype?
An antibiotype is a set of organisms which are resistant to a particular antibiotic.
How is antibiotic resistance observed in bacteria in light of Darwinian selection theory?
A random mutation causes one bacterium to become resistant to an antibiotic. Then all the others are killed when the antibiotic is introduced to the environment. The mutated bacterium is free to reproduce and soon many members of that species are resistant to that antibiotic.
What is the Medical term meaning superbug infection?
Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic.
With respect to the problem of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis which entity evolves?
bacterium
