Natural Selection and Antibiotic Resistance

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Lisa Thompson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Antibiotics are frequently given to humans that have strep throat. Why might this practice be considered a problem?
Antibiotics will have more side effects
The human body can metabolize the antibiotic to quickly, not allowing the antibiotic to reach the bacteria.
A mutation can occur in the bacteria making it resistant to the antibiotic.
Nothing will happen. It takes thousands of years for bacteria to evolve and become antibiotic resistant.
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NGSS.HS-LS4-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A population of cockroaches was sprayed with an insecticide. Some cockroaches survived and produced a population of cockroaches that was resistant to this spray. What can BEST be inferred from this example?
species will adapt no matter what the environment
environment has no effect on the survival of an organism
Individuals with favorable variations survive and reproduce
Insecticides cause mutations that are passed on to the next generation
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3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The table below shows what happens to an insect population before and after a pesticide is added.
Which of the following best explains why more of the pesticide-resistant insects were present in the second generation?
Because of the pesticides in plants, insects in the second generation developed a tolerance for pesticides
Because of heredity, insects with genes for pesticide resistance passed it on to the following generation
Because of the environment, parent insects taught their offspring to be pesticide resistant in order to survive
Because of heredity, insects learned to avoid pesticides on plants
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The pesticide DDT was used extensively in the past to reduce the numbers of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. At first, application of DDT killed almost all the mosquitoes in treated populations. Over years, however, DDT-resistant populations (ones where most mosquitoes were not killed by normal doses of DDT) began to emerge. Which of the following best explains how DDT resistance emerged in the mosquitoes?
The individual mosquitos in the starting populations sensed the environmental threat and mutated genes that made them insensitive to DDT
Populations with DDT resistance are better-adapted for any environment than populations without DDT resistance, so they would have evolved sooner or later (regardless of whether DDT was applied)
When DDT was applied, rare individuals with DDT resistance mutations were more likely to survive and leave offspring, eventually leading to populations composed largely of resistant mosquitoes
The mosquitoes must all have been DDT-resistant to begin with, because there is no genetic variation in natural populations of mosquitoes
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5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria can be attributed to which among the following
Competition
Natural Selection
Mutation
Coevolution
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6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
how are bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics?
bacteria does not become resistant to antibiotics.
by a genetic mutation/by acquiring resistance from another bacterium.
by wishing they were resistant.
antibiotic resistance does not exist.
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7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a problem because:
It is more difficult to treat people infected with them
bacteria smell pretty bad
viruses them grow out of control
they are not a problem, I love being sick
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NGSS.HS-LS3-2
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