1. How would you summarize your findings and conclusions regarding the likelihood that agricultural use of antibiotics can result in resistant human gut residents and/or resistant human pathogens? Some guiding questions for you to consider in your discussion:

Is ermB a gene that is resistant to antibiotics?

Whichbacteria were identified from BLAST as having the ermB gene and a similar sequence for that gene?

For the bacteria listed in the previous question, how many of these are known to be human pathogens and/or reside in the human gut? What about in agricultural animals?

Were the selected sequences similar to each other? How similar?

Whatdoes the similarity in the sequences tell you about the ermB gene found in these bacteria?

Would we xpect high or low sequence similarity when considering the possibility of horizontal gene transfer?

Based on this analysis, does it seem like agricultural use of antibiotics would impact human populations that consume these agricultural animals?