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Microevolution is the process by which bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. When a colony of bacteria is exposed to an antibiotic, most of the bacteria die. However, in some cases a few bacteria have randomly mutated, usually through mistakes in copying the RNA during cell division. By pure chance, some of these mutations might include a strain of RNA that makes that particular bacterium resistant to the antibiotic. This one bacterium is then able to reproduce where the others can't. The actual probablility of a random mutation creating a bacterium that is resistant to a particular antibiotic is exptremely small, but in some cases, the number of bacteria involved is sufficient to offset the odds.
Microevolution is the process by which bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. When a colony of bacteria is exposed to an antibiotic, most of the bacteria die. However, in some cases a few bacteria have randomly mutated, usually through mistakes in copying the RNA during cell division. By pure chance, some of these mutations might include a strain of RNA that makes that particular bacterium resistant to the antibiotic. This one bacterium is then able to reproduce where the others can't. The actual probablility of a random mutation creating a bacterium that is resistant to a particular antibiotic is exptremely small, but in some cases, the number of bacteria involved is sufficient to offset the odds.
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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://creationwiki.org/Microevolution Microevolution - CreationWiki]
[http://creationwiki.org/Microevolution Microevolution - CreationWiki]
[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Biology]]