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Is antibiotic resistance a gain in genetic information, or a loss in genetic information?​

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Answer: Yes, it indicates that the resistance to antibiotics comes from a loss of genetic information, not a gain in information.

Explanation:

Some scientists found that in each strain of bacteria that had developed resistance to antibiotics the bacteria had dropped from its chromosomes a gene called

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which codes for the production of two enzymes.

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