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Mutations
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points
Complete the following paragraph to describe how mutations play a role in antibiotic resistance. Answer choices may be used more
than once or not at all.
Changes in the DNA sequence of an organism are called
amino acid
rapid
antibiotics
fatty acid
long
mutations
Sometimes these
are silent, meaning they do
not change the protein that is transcribed and translated from the
affected gene.
However, sometimes they can cause a change in the structure of
the protein by coding for a different
These may be rare events that seldom occur; however, the
division of bacteria enhances their likelihood.
If one of these
resulted in a change in protein
that caused a bacterial cell to become resistant to antibiotics,
that would confer a selective advantage to that cell.
