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26). Natural selection occurs in patterns. Which of the following is not a natural selection patter?

9). Treating and preventing infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be accomplished by _____.

13). An antibiotic-resistant allele confers a fitness cost. What would you predict about the growth of the bacteria with the resistant allele compared to the growth of bacteria without the sensitive allele in the presence or absence of antibiotics?

27). The implementation and production of CAFO’s may result in antibiotic resistance.

31). MRSA and drug-resistant staph refer to _____.

24). Fitness is defined by an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular population.

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                                     .