Antibiotics and other medicines
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- Created on: 30-05-17 19:30
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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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