To: null and void
Penicillin is a creature. Why didn't it adapt, too?
361 posted on
05/08/2003 2:11:01 PM PDT by
AmericanAge
(Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?)
To: AmericanAge
Penicillin is a creature. Why didn't it adapt, too?Because the penicillium mold doesn't care about the bacteria that kill us. Why should it?
OTOH, the bacteria that kill us needed to adapt to our new weapon to survive. Uncounted maladapted trillions died. The few mutants that were penicillin resistant took their place.
To: AmericanAge
...Penicillin is a creature. ...Worthy of wildly elliptical comments.
439 posted on
05/08/2003 3:11:02 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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