Several organisms from a strain of bacteria infecting hospital patients inherited a mutation that increased their resistance to the hospital's antibacterial drugs.Over time,the drug-resistant bacteria increasingly outnumbered the bacteria without the mutation.This best illustrates
A) domestication.
B) sexual overperception.
C) natural selection.
D) a social script.

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The scenario described is an example of natural selection, where organisms with advantageous traits (in this case, the mutation that increased resistance to antibiotics) have a higher chance of survival and reproduction, leading to an increase in their population within a given environment.

Several Organisms from a Strain of Bacteria Infecting Hospital Patients