Antibiotics and other medicines

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  • Created on: 30-05-17 19:30

1. Clostridium difficile infects...

  • the digestive system, usually causing problems in people who have already been treated with antibiotics. It is thought that the harmless bacteria that are normally present in the digestive system are killed by the antibiotics.
  • the nervous system, causing difficulties with movement and a constant shaking. It is thought that the bacteria causes the neurons to shut down. Antibiotics only kill the harmless bacteria leaving the dangerous bacteria to reproduce by binary fission
  • the respiratory system, causing difficulties with breathing . It is thought that the harmless bacteria in the respiratory system are killed by the antibiotic treatment causing the immune system to produce extra mucus.
  • the circulatory system, causing an increased or decreased heart rate. People are more at risk to this if they have never received antibiotic treatment before because they body does not know how to cope with the bacteria.
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2. MRSA stands for

  • meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
  • metetaphagitc-restraint Staphylococcus aureus
  • megasound-resistantic Staphyolococcus aureus
  • meticillinic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

3. What is not an example of a source of medicine?

  • Daffodils are grown to produce a drug used to treat Alzheimer's disease.
  • Some infections can be cured using medications from the doctors.
  • Some cancer drugs are made using soil bacteria.
  • Penicillin is obtained from a fungus.

4. For the bacterium that are resistant they have a big advantage. It's better able to....

  • Survive in the host who's being treated with antibiotics to get rid of the infection, and so it lives longer and reproduces many more times.
  • Send out cytokines so that other bacteria can become resistant, leading to millions of resistant bacteria.
  • Destroy the host.
  • Go undetected by the host.

5. What is an allele?

  • An expression of a gene that can be affected by environmental influences.
  • An alternative version of a gene.
  • A section of a gen that does code for a protein.
  • A section of a gene that does not code for a protein.

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