Antibiotics

Question 1

What example of a drug relieves symptoms of disease?

Answer 1

Painkiller

Question 2

What don’t antibiotics do?

Answer 2

Kill the pathogen

Question 3

What are antibiotics?

Answer 3

Antibiotics kill bacteria only like tonsilitis. (viruses inaccessible in cells.)

Question 4

What is the most common type of antibiotic?

Answer 4

Penicillin.

Question 5

Why can’t antibiotic resistance be controlled?

Answer 5

It is due to natural selection.

Question 6

What is RMVASRG?
Red Monkeys Viciously Attack Smelly Red Gorillas.

Answer 6

Random Mutation Variation Advantage Survive Reproduce

Question 7

How does random mutation cause antibiotic resistance in a group of bacteria.

Answer 7

Some bacteria would be antibiotic resistant when treated with a drug. This bacteria would survive and pass on their genes. After many generation, all of the population will be resistant because the bacteria had an advantage to survive and reproduced.

Question 8

Why will antibiotics not get rid of a flu?

Answer 8

The flu is a virus and virus pathogens are produced inside the cell where the antibiotic cannot access. To kill the pathogen you would have to kill the whole cell.

Question 9

Why is it bad to overuse antibiotics?

Answer 9

It will speed up the development of resistant strains of viruses.