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Given What You Learned About How Influenza Changes Over Time

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Given what you learned about how influenza changes over time, how could you explain the emergence of drug resistance in bacterial pathogens? For example, certain strains of tuberculosis are resistant to many of the major classes of antibiotics traditionally used to fight this pathogen.


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Mitosis

A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

The molecule that carries genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning, and reproduction of all living organisms and many viruses.

Adenine

One of the four nucleobase compounds in DNA and RNA that is fundamental to the coding of our genetic information.

Cytosine

One of the four main bases found in DNA and RNA, which pairs with guanine during the nucleic acid structure formation.

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