Bacteria: C. difficile Subject, Main Idea, Supporting Idea, Details

Bacteria: C. difficile Subject, Main Idea, Supporting Idea, Details

​What is the subject of the article Bacteria: C. difficile

Multiple Choice

​What is the subject of the article Bacteria: C. difficile

• Diarrhea

• Food poisoning

• C. difficle

• Bacteria

• I don know the subject

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What is the main idea of the article?

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the article?

• . When C. difficile is exposed to oxygen

  in the air or other dangers, it shrinks and forms

  a tough outer covering. In this state, C. difficile

  can survive oxygen, hand cleaners, acids,

  and even many antibiotics.

• The growing population of

  C. difficile produces powerful poisons, which

  irritate the cells of the gut lining and eventually

  cause the cells to die.

• When scientists first discovered C. difficile,

  they named these bacteria

  difficile because

  the bacteria were so hard to grow in the lab.

• Even if someone

  accidentally swallows some C. difficile

  bacteria, the other bacteria in the gut keep the

  number of C. difficile low, and therefore safe.

• I don know the main idea yet?

​What is the supporting idea for the last paragraph, ¨Role In Disease¨? 

Multiple Choice

​What is the supporting idea for the last paragraph, ¨Role In Disease¨? 

• When sick people take antibiotics, helpful

  microorganisms in the gut are killed along

  with the harmful ones.

• This photo was taken inside a healthy human gut.

  The gut lining is smooth and healthy. (

• By causing

  constant irritation, C. difficile can make it harder

  for the immune system to function.

• I do not know the supporting idea for the parapgraph.

​​What are the details for the last paragraph, ¨Role In Disease¨? 

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​​What are the details for the last paragraph, ¨Role In Disease¨? 

• Helpful gut

  microorganisms out of the way, C. difficile

  can multiply rapidly and take over the gut

  microbiome.

• The growing population produces powerful poisons, which

  irritate the cells of the gut lining and eventually

  cause the cells to die.

• . Bloating, diarrhea, and stomach pain

  are the most common symptoms.

• C. difficile can make it harder

  for the immune system to function.

• The gut lining is irritated and

  damaged.

Multiple Choice

A proposed answer to a question about the natural world

• claim

• evidence

• infection

• antibiotics

Multiple Choice

Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim

• evidence

• claim

• bacteria

• infection

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Too small to be seen with the naked eye

• microscopic

• population

• scale

• microbiome