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Help Save & Exit s 16 If a person takes an antibiotic for a bacterial infection, this can reduce the amount of bacteria in their normal microbiota and allow yeast in their genitourinary tract to flourish, which could result in a yeast infection. This is an example of 00:20:00 Multiple Choice predation. the competitive exclusion principle. symbiosis endosymbiosis the co-inclusion principle

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In the proposed condition yeast was not growing well in when bacterial infection was present but once bacterial activity reduced through the application of the antibiotics, yeast take over and proliferate. This is an example of ‘The competitive exclusion principle’ once competition removed (bacteria) which lead to over growth of fungi (yeast) once competition finished in the system.