Indicate True (T) and False (F) Statements Below Regarding Bacterial

question 13

Short Answer

Indicate true (T) and false (F) statements below regarding bacterial and viral evolution. Your answer would be a four-letter string composed of letters T and F only, e.g. FFFT.
( ) Bacteria that reside in natural soil that has not been deliberately exposed to antibiotics are normally sensitive to any antibiotic.
( ) Whereas bacterial and eukaryotic pathogens evade the immune response mainly by genetic recombination, antigenic variation in most viruses occurs by error-prone replication mechanisms.
( ) If an antibiotic targets a vital bacterial protein that cannot be altered in any way to become antibiotic-resistant and functional at the same time, the bacteria would never develop resistance to the antibiotic.
( ) It is impossible to develop effective vaccines against viral infections, since viruses evolve very rapidly.

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