Becker's World of the Cell (9th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321934925
Author: Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 25, Problem 25.5CC
What do you think would happen to a pathogenic (disease-causing) bacterial population in which some of the bacteria contain an R factor plasmid in a region in which antibiotics are heavily used to treat routine human infections?
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