In message , Tim
Streater writes
In article

rg,
Steve Firth wrote:

DrTeeth wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:07:56 GMT, just as I was about to take a herb,
lid (Windmill) disturbed my reverie and
wrote:

They say that antibiotic resistance can even be spread from one
type of
bacterium to another.
It is a fact, not a 'they say'.
Perhaps you could explain the mechanism of this fact?

It happens because bacteria exchange genetic material. I don't
personally know in any more detail than that.

I had to explain this to my sister once. She is a typical "nice but
clueless" LibDem, who one day harangued me that it "can't be right" to
be putting "a fish gene" into wheat. So I gently explained that there's
no such thing as a fish gene, as humans share, I dunno, at least 50% of
their genetic material with fish. Wheat and fish share something like
40%, IIRC.

Trouble is she's one of these folk who live on a "need to know" basis
(i.e. has no natural curiosity about the world around her) and so has
actually very little knowledge about anything at all.

Does she also think that wind farms are a viable alternative to
nuclear/gas/coal?
--
bert