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Explain antibiotic resistance observed in bacteria in light of Darwinian selection theory.

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According to Darwin excess use of antibiotics or drugs has resulted in selection of resistant varities in a much lesser time scale of months or years and not centuries. It is an example of evolutionnot by nature by anthropogenic action.
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