GCSE Biology – Antibiotics

Last updated: 03/07/2020

Edexcel GCSE Science – Biology higher Health, disease and the development of medicines GCSE Biology – Antibiotics

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-I can explain the need for antibodies
-I can explain how antibiotics work
-I can describe the problem of emerging antibiotic resistance

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Question 1 of 26

1. Question
What do painkillers do?
- Reduce symptoms of disease
- Increase symptoms of disease
- Kill a disease
- Produce immunity from a disease
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Question 2 of 26

2. Question
Name one way that painkillers reduce symptoms of disease.
- Reduce your internal temperature
- Increase your internal temperature
- Increase in photosynthesis
- Increase in respiration
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Question 3 of 26

3. Question
Name one way that painkillers reduce symptoms of disease.
- They stop pain signals reaching the brain
- They send pain signals to the heart
- They increase pain signals to the brain
- They send more pain signals to the lungs to fight the disease
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Question 4 of 26

4. Question
What do painkillers not do?
- Kill the pathogen
- Leave the pathogen alive
- Reduce symptoms of a disease
- Reduce temperature
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Question 5 of 26

5. Question
Painkillers do not
- All of these answers
- Cure the disease
- Produce immunity
- Produce antibodies
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Question 6 of 26

6. Question
What has to fight the disease, even when painkillers are used?
- The immune system
- The digestive system
- The endocrine system
- The circulatory system
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Question 7 of 26

7. Question
Name the most important type of cell in the immune system.
- White blood cells
- Red blood cells
- Gland cells
- Root hair cells
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Question 8 of 26

8. Question
What are antibiotics?
- Medicines that cure disease
- Medicines that reduce symptoms of a disease
- Medicines that stop a disease entering the body for the first time
- Medicines that reduce internal body temperature
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Question 9 of 26

9. Question
How do antibiotics work?
- They kill bacteria inside the body
- They form a barrier to stop bacteria entering the body
- They kill bacteria outside the body
- They provide an optimum living condition for bacteria
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Question 10 of 26

10. Question
How have antibiotics helped the world?
- They have greatly reduced deaths from bacterial disease
- They have greatly reduced deaths from viral disease
- They have greatly increased deaths from bacterial disease
- They have greatly reduced deaths from all types of disease
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Question 11 of 26

11. Question
What types of disease can antibiotics treat?
- Bacterial disease
- Viral disease
- Protist diseases
- Fungal diseases
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Question 12 of 26

12. Question
What do you have to be given the right antibiotic for?
- To kill the specific bacterium making you ill
- To kill other types of bacterium
- To prevent all types of bacterium from entering the body
- To kill other types of viruses
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Question 13 of 26

13. Question
Antibiotics cannot kill what type of pathogen?
- Viral pathogens
- Bacterial pathogens
- Homeostasis pathogens
- Energetic pathogens
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Question 14 of 26

14. Question
Name an example of an antibiotic.
- Penicillin
- Ibuprofen
- Paracetamol
- Ziagen
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Question 15 of 26

15. Question
Why is it hard to develop drugs to kill viruses?
- They live in body cells
- They live outside the body
- They do not invade the body
- They cannot survive inside the body
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Question 16 of 26

16. Question
What do drugs that kill viruses often cause?
- Damage to body tissues
- No damage to body cells
- Damage to bacteria
- Damage to protists
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Question 17 of 26

17. Question
Which type of drug would be used to treat HIV?
- Antiretroviral drugs
- Antibiotics
- Antibodies
- Antigens
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Question 18 of 26

18. Question
How do bacteria reproduce?
- By binary fission
- By mitosis
- By meiosis
- By homeostasis
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Question 19 of 26

19. Question
What does binary fission involve?
- Bacteria splitting in two
- Bacteria splitting in 3
- Bacteria splitting in four
- Two bacteria joining together
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Question 20 of 26

20. Question
What types of bacteria are evolving?
- Resistant strains
- Resistive strains
- Resistance strains
- Resistory strains
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Question 21 of 26

21. Question
What does resistant strain mean?
- Bacteria that cannot be killed with antibiotics
- Virus that can be killed with antibiotics
- Virus that cannot be killed with antibiotics
- Bacteria that can be killed with antibiotics
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Question 22 of 26

22. Question
Why have resistant strains emerged?
- Due to overuse of antibiotics
- Due to overuse of antiretroviral drugs
- Due to underuse of antibiotics
- All of these reasons
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Question 23 of 26

23. Question
What do resistant strains cause?
- More bacterial diseases
- Less bacterial diseases
- More viral diseases
- More protist diseases
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Question 24 of 26

24. Question
What do specific bacteria require?
- Specific antibiotics
- A general antibiotic
- No antibiotics
- Antiretroviral drugs
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Question 25 of 26

25. Question
What are superbugs?
- Bacteria that survives during antibiotics
- Bacteria that survives during vaccinations
- Bacteria that survives during painkillers
- Bacteria that survives during operations
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Question 26 of 26

26. Question
Which of the following is formed from a superbug?
- MRSA
- MMR
- Malaria
- Nothing
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