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Subject: microbiology
Category: Science > Biology
Asked by: tmac414-ga
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Posted: 10 Mar 2005 17:48 PST
Expires: 09 Apr 2005 18:48 PDT
Question ID: 492104

Why is it that antibiotic resistance cannot be used to help identify a species?
Amylase is an exoenzyme-Why?

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Subject: Re: microbiology
From: xarqi-ga on 10 Mar 2005 18:06 PST

Most resistence genes are carried by plasmids and these are
transmissible horizontally, readily crossing between bacterial
species.

Amylase is secreted by cells, thus, it is an exoenzyme.

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