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How do antibiotic-rich environments like hospitals speed up the rate at which superbugs increase their percentage of the bacteria population?

a. Increase the rate of mutations in bacteria

b. Increase the size of bacteria

c. Increase the bacterias rate of reproduction

d. Increase selective pressures leaving many resistance bacteria alive

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Increase the bacterias rate of reproduction

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