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as the bacteria it was exposed to, eventually one strain mutated and this lead to a resistance to the antibiotic, and therefore the bacteria with the mutation was able to reproduce, where as the other bacteria would have been killed off by the antibiotic. Thus natural selection is achieved, yipee!(not for us)

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