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Is Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics an Appropriate Example of Evolutionary Change?

April 26, 2017antibiotics appropriate bacterial evolutionary resistance

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Is Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics an Appropriate Example of Evolutionary Change?

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There is no question that bacteria “evolve” resistance to antibiotics. Such evolution, however, has not been demonstrated to turn a coccus into a spirochete, much less a spirochete into a paramecium into a frog.