After your family went to the Olive Garden for dinner one ni

After your family went to the Olive Garden for dinner one night, several of you come down with severe gastrointestinal distress. You conclude the cause of your illness was a bacterial infection acquired from contaminated food the family shared. You tell your biology teacher about it the next day, because you didn’t get your homework done, and he says that a bacterial infection would have taken longer to develop. a. Why does your instructor say it would have taken longer? b. How could you show that although it wasn\'t a bacterial infection, it was still a bacterial related illness?

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The food borne illness is mainly caused by “bacterial poisoning” for example, Clostridium botulinum bacteria that lives on food products and utilize them as nutrient source. So that, the “synthesis of botulium toxin” is going to get generated after eating \"clostridium-contaminated food\". This toxin generation in bacteria is going to take longer even after the consumption of food so that, your instructor say it would have taken longer to develop bacterial related illness such as gastrointestinal distress or smooth muscle paralysis