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You always hear about antibiotic resistance, these are some basic illustrations I created to illustrate the three ways bacteria gain new DNA! This is how resistance spreads!

Illustration of a virus that infected a bacterial cell, made copies of itself and used bits of DNA from that bacteria, the host bacteria dies releasing the viruses, a virus containing the original host dna is then injected into a new bacteria, the original host dna incorporated into the new bacterial genome
An illlustration of what basically comes down to bacteria information transfer. A plasmid travels from one bacteria to another via pilius
This is where bacteria absorb random floating bits of dna from other bacteria that have died, the dna forms a plasmid(free floating DNA) or can incorporate itself into the genome
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APfishainsley.art

I love these illustrations, I think they work really well to make the topic accessible!

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BRnildrohain.bsky.social

Nice illustrations! 🦠🤩🦠

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Aantijen.bsky.social

These are great!

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Ssjscentraltx.bsky.social

So, does that mean that the bacteria can then spread to other organisms and cause antibiotic resistance in the newly infected organism? And are there specific viruses that are known to do this? For example, are there common viruses that have demonstrated this trait - eg, flu? Or??

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