swbarnes2
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Joined: Mar. 2006
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Okay, so let's get this straight.
Do you agree that the ability to resist antibiotics is "beneficial"?
If so, you then predict that if 50 labs all over the country screen put every post-doc and lab tech they had to work screening plates for 3 months to find resistant mutants, they will ALL find the exact same mutation?
What if I'm screening for a mutation that cripples a certain pathway, and when I find a colony with the mutation I want, I will keep it and cultivate it for the next 20 years, and all the other ones just get incinerated.
Doesn't that make that mutation beneficial? You certainly can't claim that its bearers fare worse in their environment than the wild-type kind.
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