Resistant Bacteria and Classification

Question 1

How do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?

Answer 1

Mutation of bacteria creates new immune strains. The bacteria survive and reproduce. The resistant strain then spreads because people are not immune to it

Question 2

Which bacteria is resistant to most antibiotics?

Answer 2

MRSA

Question 3

How do you reduce the rate of the development of antibiotic resistant strains?

Answer 3

• Doctors should not prescribe antibiotics to non-serious infections or viral infections
• Patients should complete their full course of antibiotics to make sure that all the bacteria are dead and non-survive to mutate
• Antibiotics shouldn’t be used in agriculture

Question 4

(DON’T NEED)What is the Linnaean classification system?

Answer 4

• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species

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Question 5

(DON’T NEED)What are the three domains and who created them?

Answer 5

Carl Woese
Archaea - primitive bacteria living in extreme environments
Bacteria - True bacteria
Eukaryota - Includes fungi, plants, animals and protists

Question 6

(DON’T NEED)What is the binomial system?

Answer 6

Humans are called HOMOSAPIENS

Homo - genus
Sapien - species