Respond to the items below.
Explain the role of horizontal gene transfer (conjugation,
transformation, and transduction) in contributing to the spread of
drug resistant microbes.
Describe the four common mechanisms of antimicrobial drug
resistance used by bacteria and give an example of each.
Will developing new antibiotics stop the problem of drug
resistant microbes? How high of a priority is this for the
scientific research community?
In detail, describe and/or illustrate each of the chemical
processes whereby genetic information is transferred from nuclear
genes in a eukaryotic cell to the final usable protein.