A Microorganism That Can Use Ready-Made Folic Acid from Its

question 16

Multiple Choice

A microorganism that can use ready-made folic acid from its environment and no longer needs to synthesize it from the PABA precursor demonstrates an example of what type of antimicrobial resistance mechanism

• A)Alteration of an enzyme
• B)Alteration of targets
• C)Development of enzymes
• D)Alteration of a metabolic pathway

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive Events

Two or more events that cannot occur at the same time, making it impossible for them to happen simultaneously in any given trial.

Probabilities

The quantification of how likely an event is to happen, expressed as a number ranging from 0 to 1, with 0 meaning it cannot occur and 1 meaning it will definitely happen.

Double Counting

An error in calculation or analysis that occurs when the same data or transaction is counted more than once, leading to inaccuracies.

Joint Probability Distribution

A statistical measure that gives the probability of two events occurring together and at the same point in time.