GCSE Biology – Antibiotics and resistance

Last updated: 15/06/2020

Learning Objectives

-I can explain how antibiotics work
-I can describe the problem of emerging antibiotic resistance
-I can explain how overuse of antibiotics can cause conditions such as MRSA to arise

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  1. What do painkillers do?

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  2. Name one way that painkillers reduce symptoms of disease.

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  3. Name one way that painkillers reduce symptoms of disease.

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  4. What do painkillers not do?

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  5. Painkillers do not

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  6. What has to fight the disease, even when painkillers are used?

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  7. Name the most important type of cell in the immune system.

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  8. What are antibiotics?

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  9. What do antibiotics cure?

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  10. How do antibiotics work?

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  11. How have antibiotics helped the world?

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  12. What types of disease can antibiotics treat?

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  13. What do you have to be given the right antibiotic for?

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  14. Antibiotics cannot kill what type of pathogen?

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  15. Name an example of an antibiotic.

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  16. Why is it hard to develop drugs to kill viruses?

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  17. What do drugs that kill viruses often cause?

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  18. Which type of drug would be used to treat HIV?

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  19. How do bacteria reproduce?

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  20. What does binary fission involve?

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  21. What types of bacteria are evolving?

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  22. What does resistant strain mean?

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  23. Why have resistant strains emerged?

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  24. What do resistant strains cause?

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  25. What do specific bacteria require?

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