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Antibiotic resistance in microbes is significant because it illustrates:

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Antibiotic resistance in microbes is significant because it illustrates:

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  • Environmental selection acting on colour variation

  • Industrial melanism

  • Rapid natural selection in microorganisms

  • Balanced polymorphism

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Solution

Because microbes reproduce quickly, the use of antibiotics produces observable evolutionary change over a short time. Antibiotic resistance therefore illustrates rapid natural selection in microorganisms.

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