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Resistance to disease or poison?
Immunity is the resistance to disease or poison. This means that the body is capable of fighting the infection without the aid of medical intervention.
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.
What are the benefits of antibiotic resistance?
to treat serious infections before the organism has been identified,to achieve a synergistic effect,to prevent emergence of resistant organism
How is antibiotic resistance an adaptation?
The trait giving bacteria antibiotic resistance has become common, giving bacteria with the trait a selective advantage.
Has antibiotic resistance affected endocarditis?
Unfortunately, in recent years, the treatment of endocarditis has become more complicated as a result of antibiotic resistance
What are three actions that could prevent antibiotic resistance?
A couple ways to prevent antibiotic resistance are, Don't use old left over antibiotics left in medicine cabinet, Don't take antibiotics for every little illness. If you have a fever ( low grade temp) let it go for a couple days so your body can work on building antibodies for the illness. by all means if it lasts more than 4 days see a doctor. those are two ways that I know. Hope it helped.
What is an example of direct evidence for evolution is... genetic changes in plants antibiotic resistance in bacteria pesticide resistance in insects or all of the above?
genetic changes in plants, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and pesticide resistance in insects.
When bacteria are not affected by antibiotics they have?
They have resistance to the antibiotic.
Antibiotic in gene cloning?
If antibiotic resistance is added to the gene being cloned, antibiotics can be used to isolate the transformed bacteria (ones with the gene being cloned) by killing off all non-transformed bacteria, that don't have the antibiotic resistance. There is a chance that the non-transformed bacteria can mutate to develop antibiotic resistance.
What happens when skin resistance is high?
High skin resistance can produce severe skin burns but prevent the current from entering the body
Is it true cells containing a plasmid with an antibiotic resistance gene will die in the presence of the antibiotic?
false
What can gene for antibiotic resistance be used for?
genetic marker
