The ability of a cell, tissue, or organism to better resist stress damage by prior exposure to a lesser amount of stress is known as adaptive response. It is observed in all organisms in response to a READ MORE http://www.ehponline.org/docs/1994/Suppl-10/crawford.html
The adaptive response is a form of direct DNA repair in E. coli that is initiated against alkylation, particularly methylation, of guanine or thymine nucleotides or phosphate groups on the sugar-phosp READ MORE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_response