Multiple Choice
One way a macrolide-producing organism, such as Streptomyces sp., prevents its own demise from production of the antibiotic is to
A) methylate its own RNA.
B) change its peptidoglycan linkages.
C) create an MDR pump.
D) change its DNA structure.
E) only produce the antibiotic during the death phase.
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