FIGHTING DISEASE - DRUGS

Question 1

What do antibiotics do?

Answer 1

Antibiotics kill the bacteria causing the problem without killing your own body cells.

Question 2

True or False

Different types of antibiotics kill different types of antibodies

Answer 2

True. So it’s important to be treated with the right one.

Question 3

Why can’t antibiotics kill viruses?

Answer 3

Viruses reproduce using your own body cells, which makes it very difficult to develop drugs that destroy just the virus without killing the body’s cells.

Question 4

What happens when bacteria mutates?

Answer 4

Sometimes the mutations cause bacteria to be resistant to an antibiotic.

Question 5

What does it mean if bacteria is resistant?

Answer 5

When you treat the infection, only the non-resistant strains of bacteria will be killed. The individual resistant bacteria will survive and reproduce, and the population of the resistant strain will increase.

Question 6

How can doctors slow down the rate of development of resistant strains?

Answer 6

Doctors can avoid over-prescribing antibiotics

Question 7

What culture medium is usually used containing carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and vitamins?

Answer 7

Agar jelly