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To: freespirited; Cedric
Bacteria, for example, can evolve very quickly.

They can evolve very quickly into what?

352 posted on 07/01/2007 2:11:18 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (see FR homepage for Euvolution v0.2.1)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

For example, a new strain of bacteria. I am sure you are familiar with the problem of micro-organisms becoming resistant to the drugs that medicine has available to treat disease. This is the result of the evolutionary process.

There seems to be some confusion here about what the term evolution means in biology. It refers to a change in the characteristics of the gene pool of a population over time.


353 posted on 07/02/2007 7:35:27 AM PDT by freespirited (Mr. President, PUT UP THE WALL.)
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