BIOL 1001 Chapter Notes -Rifampicin, Rpob, Drug Resistance
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Instead individuals with certain heritable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce: natural selection occurs when individuals with certain characteristics produce more offspring than do individuals without those characteristics. The individuals are selected naturally by the environment: evolution, which is any change in the genetic characteristics of a population over time, is simply the outcome of these 4 steps. 3. 4 evolution in action: recent research on natural selection. Advances in nutrition made people better able to fight off most m. tuberculosis infections quickly. The development of antibiotics such as rifampin allowed physicians to stop even advanced functions. 2: in the late 1980s, rates of the mtb infection surged in many countries, and in 1993 the. Microevolutionary processes & hwe - bio 1001 3. 3, 3. 4, 3. 5 (p 48-58: large population of mtb bacteria in patients lungs make him sick. The patient: a second round of drug therapy begins but is ineffective on the drug resistant bacteria.