Antibiotic Resistance Evolves in Bacteria When ________

question 27

Multiple Choice

Antibiotic resistance evolves in bacteria when ________.

• A)the presence of antibiotics favors bacteria that already have genes for resistance
• B)farmers do not use enough antibiotics in animal feed
• C)the antibiotics create resistance genes in bacteria
• D)none of the above

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Definitions:

Peter Principle

A concept in management that suggests people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence."

Premack Principle

A psychological principle suggesting that more probable behaviors can reinforce less probable behaviors if the more probable behavior is performed after the less probable one.

Complementary Traits

Characteristics or qualities in individuals that, when combined, enhance mutual compatibility and effectiveness in relationships or team dynamics.

Dominant

Referring to a trait that supersedes another inherited trait in the phenotype of an organism.