To: Frumious Bandersnatch
If a bacterium gets a less than life-threatening dose of poison, what's so unreasonable about the fact that it develops a further immunity against said poison? This is not mutation.Ask a biologist this question and get back with me. I don't have the references at hand to counter you, but I'm sure you are wrong about this. Bacteria re clones. Antibiotic resistence does require mutation.
I'll wait for a reference refuting this.
313 posted on
03/28/2002 10:07:06 AM PST by
js1138
To: js1138
Antibiotic resistence does require mutation.
Again, not necessarily. Try "immune system." All organisms have them.
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