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What are the ways in which bacteria can acquire foreign DNA?
What are the ways in which bacteria can acquire foreign DNA?
What is the impact of antibiotic use according to the text?
What is the impact of antibiotic use according to the text?
Where can antimicrobial resistance plasmids be transferred between bacteria?
Where can antimicrobial resistance plasmids be transferred between bacteria?
What is a plasmid in bacteria?
What is a plasmid in bacteria?
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How can bacterial antibiotic resistance result?
How can bacterial antibiotic resistance result?
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Antimicrobial resistance only impacts the patient taking the medications and not the global community.
Antimicrobial resistance only impacts the patient taking the medications and not the global community.
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Plasmids are essential for the survival of bacteria.
Plasmids are essential for the survival of bacteria.
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Bacterial antibiotic resistance can result from the mutation of genes involved in normal physiological processes and cellular structures.
Bacterial antibiotic resistance can result from the mutation of genes involved in normal physiological processes and cellular structures.
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Transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another by bacteriophages is called transformation.
Transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another by bacteriophages is called transformation.
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Antimicrobial resistance plasmids cannot be transferred between bacteria under a wide variety of conditions.
Antimicrobial resistance plasmids cannot be transferred between bacteria under a wide variety of conditions.
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