Year 9 Antibiotic resistance

What term describes a change to the genetic information of an organism?

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Identify the antibiotic

• Paracetamol

• Statins

• Penicillin

• Aspirin

Antibiotics would not be effective for treating which of the following diseases?

• Influenza

• Salmonella

• Cholera

• Gonorrhoea

Which is not a cause of the development of antibiotic resistance?

• Mass treating farm animals with antibiotics

• Not finishing a course of antibiotics

• Over prescribing antibiotics

• Using antibiotics together with other medicines

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Who discovered penicillin?

• Joseph Lister

• Alexander Fleming

• Louis Pasteur

• Ignaz Semelweis

State the strain of bacteria resistant to every antibiotic (it has four letters!)

Identify the disease that could be treated with an antibiotic.

• Common cold

• Chicken pox

• Tuberculosis

• Measles

State the (two word) process of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin that is responsible for strains of bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant

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