What did Salvador Luria show about bacterial resistance?
Genetically inherited
Environmentally caused
Chemically induced
Randomly occurring
Answer
Genetically inherited: Salvador Luria demonstrated that bacterial resistance to viruses is genetically inherited. He showed that when bacteria are exposed to a virus, some bacteria survive and become resistant to the virus. This resistance is passed on to the bacteria's offspring, indicating that the resistance is genetically inherited.
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