a structure in some bacteria that is resistant to adverse environmental factors is an?

Answer 1

endospore

Answer 2

Bacterial organisms have the capacity to "cope" to their environment. So they develop resistance to antibiotics especially if the patient didn't take the full prescribed course of the antiomicrobial therapy. There are a lot who self-medicate as well (usually underdose) , they don't take the correct drug dose, duration of treatment and right timing. These are factors which lead to antimicrobial resistance of bacterial strains. Despite of that, a lot of religious people would claim that GOD is all knowing, so it means that GOD knows that Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus, and hard-to-kill Pseudomonas Species would emerge --and God allows it. But ofcourse, they would deny that God has something to do with these bacteria developing resistance to broad spectrum antibiotics. Or the omniscient and omnipotent Creator designed these bacterial organisms to "develop resistance" to antibiotics? The bacteria's coping mechanisms CANNOT be directly associated with Evolution, but it's a sign that bacterial organisms have the capacity to adapt themselves, in order to survive -- they have self preserving mechanisms too. It's more of adaptation. But in the end it's still a bacterium... that developed resistance to antibiotics and it didn't change into another organism. Evolution requires an organism to change into another organism. Ex. fish turns into a frog - ape into a human being. This is NOT the case of the antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Answer 3

its the opposite of a limiting factor. It will help the bacteria increase carrying capacity in its enviroment