Question

The resistant bacterial cells illustrate what characteristic of life?

Answer 1

I'm thinking natural selection or biodiversity but it depends on what you guys are talking about, if there was some that were resistant and others that died off from not being then its diversity or natural selection or it could be transformation if they were once non resistant and then became resistant from intaking DNA.. hopefully one sounds familiar and this helps

Answer 2

Adaptation

Step-by-step explanation:

Adaptation refers to the process of modification of structural, physiological, behavioral, traits of organisms in order to improve their survival under the changed surroundings.

The processes such as mutation impart genetic variations among the individuals of the population which are then acted upon by natural selection.

Use of antibiotics by the human to control the bacterial population led to natural selection of the bacteria consisting of antibiotic resistance genes. Owing to increased survival rate of these bacteria, their frequency increased in the population over several generations.