Bacteria Evolution

By Austin Willix
Scientists have proven that bacteria has developed an
resistance to certain antibiotics and certain medicines. Certain
things are now less effective such as penicillin. Each new
stronger drug that comes out must be replaced with something
stronger as the bacteria become more resistant. In a given
population of bacteria many genes are expressed in a variety of
ways. In a natural enviroment genes and traits are freely mixed.
When exposed to a antibiotic most of the microbes die. But
many of them become resistant to the new antibiotic. Over time
the descendants all inherit the same genes and they all become
resistant to the antibiotic. So over time they all inherit the same
resistance. So instead of new genetic information being made
genetic information was being lost.
Antibiotic resistance
Bacteria multiply by when each single celled bacterium grows until
there is enough material to form two separate bacteria.The one
parent bacterium then splits into two progeny bacteria. binary ssion
the time that it takes one bacterium to accumulate enough material to
split is known as the generation length. This generation length varies
greatly between different genus and species of bacteria, from as
short as twenty minutes for E. coli to as long as twenty four hours for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. With each generation, the number of
bacteria doubles. A single E. coli bacterium can grow to become over
one million bacteria in as little as three and a half hours.
Multiplying Bacteria
Mutation happens when there is a genetic error in the
copying of the genes from parent to progeny bacterium.
the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a
variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent
generations, caused by the alteration of single base units
in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of
larger sections of genes or chromosomes. Mutation rates
vary between different genus and species of bacteria.
Statistically, random mutations may occur as often as one
in every million. However, since most bacterial populations
in the human body number in the millions or billions it is
statistically probable that there will be many mutations with
each new generation.
Multiplying Bacteria