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Essential Cell Biology
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To explain: The reason why bacterial population in a culture tends to grow slowly under unfavorable conditions like the presence of poison or antibiotics. Also, explain how the population is restored in the same adverse conditions in the same culture, in due course of time.

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Mutations are heritable changes which occur in an organism. Bacteria exploit this mutation in order to overcome the effect of antibiotics that they are exposed to, in order to retrieve a dwindling population. Antibiotics are chemical substances which inhibit or prevent the growth of bacteria and are used to treat bacterial infections as part of diagnosis by the physician.

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