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To: Wacka

Wonderful, I suppose.

How does your glow in the dark yeast prove that the adaptive behavior of bacteria is anything but a pre-programmed response provided at the time of creation?

What you did could be best termed “intelligent design,” since it was directed by a plan from outside the organism.


225 posted on 03/26/2009 3:20:34 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor

Two separate things.

Bacteria-the mutation(s) that made them resistant are not present in bacteria that are not resistant. That resistance gene can be cloned and put into other bacteria showing that it confers the resistance. That is why pharma are trying to develop other classes of antibiotics. Most of the antibiotics act on the same pathway in the bacterial cell and have similar molecular structures. They are trying to to develop drugs that work on completely different pathways.

Example- do not take tetracycline and penicillin at the same time- they will counteract . Tetracycline works only on growing bacteria by inhibiting the prokaryotic 30s ribosome (needed for protein synthesis). Penicillin breaks down the cell wall of gram positive bacteria. This causes the bacteria to rupture by osmotic pressure.

Using chemiluminescent bacteria, yeast and tumor cells,and placing them in mice, the progress of the infection or cancer development can be tracked in much fewer mice. Rather than having to kill mice at every time point the same mouse can be tracked through multiple time points. This saves $ and time and gives more reliable data. The company I worked for also patented a process where one could knock out the mouse,and image it in a light-tight box with an ultra-sensitive camera. After I left there, they developed a camera that could photograph the mouse from 360 degrees and using a camera. make a 3D picture of the infection or cancer.


231 posted on 03/26/2009 4:03:05 PM PDT by Wacka
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