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Bacteria that happen to be more resistant to an antibiotic are more likely to survive and reproduce, so resistance becomes more common in the next generation. What name is given to this process?

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Natural Selection.

It favors the better adapted organisms.

Kaze No Koe answered May 25, 2019

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