Microbes & Disease & Biotechnology

You have a cold, but your doctor will not give you an antibiotic because

• antibiotics do not kill viruses

• colds are not infectious

• antibiotics make colds worse

• antibiotics provide bacteria with food

Which structures allow protists (sarcodines), such as amoebas to move? It literally means false foot.

• cilia

• contractile vacuole

• flagella

• pseudopods

What is involved in creating genetically modified bacteria?

• allowing them to reproduce freely

• changing their food source

• using biotech techniques

• growing them on selected plants

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Which is the best way to help prevent the flu from becoming a pandemic?

• getting a vaccination

• eating fruits and vegetables

• taking antibiotics

• washing hands often

The best treatment for the flu and many other viral infections is

• an over-the-counter medication

• a vaccine

• an antibiotic

• bed rest, lots of it

Under which condition is a person most likely to contract E.coli poisoning?

• autotrophs

• drinking bottled water

• from a vector

• eating raw veggies

How are viruses, bacteria, and parasites alike?

• they are unicellular and can cause disease

• they can infect a host and cause disease

• they are multi-cellular and cause disease

• they are all non-living and cause disease

Which best describes how athlete's foot is spread to other individuals?

• spores in the air

• having contact with the fungus on a shower floor

• eating a food with contaminated fungus

• swimming in a lake that has a large amount of algae

When bacteria become ___________________ to an antibiotic, scientists try to develop new antibiotics that will kill these bacteria.

• are resistant to a vaccine

• resistant

• are weakened and destroyed by antibiotics

• are dead or altered

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A virus can multiply only when it is made inside a living _____________.

• host

• virus

• bacteria

• flagella