Friday, April 30, 2010

Survival: Microbe clock

A. In 1997 more than half of pneumococcus bacteria strains were evolving resistance or became resistant to penicillin. A search for an alternative antibiotics to treat illnesses been only marginally successful.

B. Total cells: 314,062
Mutations: 1339
Cells divide: 13,524

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