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How are antibiotics a further selection pressure to the immune system
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Pathogens may be produce an enzyme to help them break down the antibiotic
Pathogens may use a different metabolic pathway to the one inhibited by the enzyme
Conjugation - horizontal evolution, resistance in the same generation
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Why do bacterial populations evolve quickly
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High reproduction rates
Large population size
Useful mutations
Biology - Topic 4
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