Bacteria can become resistant to tetracycline in various

Last updated: 5/1/2023

Bacteria can become resistant to tetracycline in various ways Please match the mechanism of resistance with the most likely genetic variation event 2 4 a tetracycline inactivating enzyme appears that is unrelated to other enzymes in the bacterium tetracycline no longer binds to the ribosome a new tetracycline pump arises that is related to an existing pump in the bacterium extra ribosomal subunits are made to X X horizontal gene transfer gene duplication and divergence a mutation within a gene a mutation within the regulatory DNA of a gene