GCSE Biology – Antibiotic resistance

Last updated: 30/04/2020
AQA GCSE Science – Combined science higher Inheritance, variation and evolution GCSE Biology – Antibiotic resistance

Learning Objectives

-I can explain why bacteria can evolve quickly
-I can describe why antibiotic resistance could arise
-I can describe the effect of MRSA (and other antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria) on humans
-I can describe why the development of new antibiotics is slow

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  1. Why can bacteria evolve rapidly?

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  2. How do bacteria divide?

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  3. What helps bacteria to reproduce more quickly?

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  4. What is the name for treatments to bacteria?

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  5. When should doctors prescribe antibiotics?

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  6. Why does completing your course of antibiotics help?

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  7. What could happen if you do not finish your antibiotics course?

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  8. What can mutation of surviving bacteria cause?

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  9. What produces a new strain of bacteria?

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  10. If a strain is resistant, what happens?

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  11. What is a resistant strain?

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  12. Why do resistant strains evolve so quickly?

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  13. Why are resistant strains dangerous?

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  14. What happens to the resistant strain?

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  15. Why is the resistant strain spread between people?

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  16. What happens to the population of the resistant strain over time?

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  17. How can doctors reduce the rate of development of resistant strains?

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  18. How can patients help to slow down resistant strain development?

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  19. What helps to reduce resistant bacteria strains in patients?

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  20. What can farmers do to slow down antibiotic resistance?

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  21. Why does farmers using less antibiotics help?

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  22. Why do we want to stop resistant bacteria strains?

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  23. What type of bacteria is resistant to antibiotics?

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  24. How do we develop treatments for resistant trains?

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  25. What are the problems with developing new antibiotics?

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