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Penicillin is a drug that kills bacteria. Today, many bacteria are resistant to this drug.How does natural selection best explain this observation?Some bacteria survive penicillin and reproduce, while others die off.Normal bacteria change into resistant bacteria within their lifetime.Resistant bacteria mutate more quickly than normal bacteria.

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