Visualization of Bacteria Evolution


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This incredible video of bacteria evolving in response to antibiotics would be useful to teach students about how evolution happens, and is still happening.

In this video, you can literally see evolution happening over the course of just days.

Scientist use microbial evolution growth arena plate (MEGA) to show how bacteria mutate to evolve resistance to increasing levels of antibiotics in just a matter of days.

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