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38). A sensitive S. aureus bacterium acquires a new gene that allows it to resist the effects of β-lactam antibiotics. What might the protein encoded by that gene do?    

21). Random mutation and gene transfer is how bacteria replicate.

22). A population is a group of organisms of the same species living together in the same geographic area.

19). Bacteria reproduce by the process of                                     .

5). Which of these is a harmful bacterium?

25). Natural selection is defined by a differential survival and reproduction of populations within an individual in response to environmental pressure.

34). Bacteria can become resistant to drugs by _____.

2). A type of natural selection in which organisms near the middle of the phenotypic range of variation are favored is _____.

6). Which hypothetical antibiotic would treat bacterial infections by interfering with bacterial reproduction?

20). Bacteria acquire random mutations when DNA replicates during sexual reproduction.