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aabwk4

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Describe the process of antibiotic resistance.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The pressure within the pleural cavity is more than the pressure of the air within the lungs.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



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Answer to Question 1

Two ways in which an organism becomes resistant to an antibiotic: spontaneous mutation that conveys resistance or by acquiring a plasmid that contains resistance genes from another bacterium.

Answer to Question 2

False



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