Antibiotic Resistance GCSE

What is antibiotic resistance?

• The ability for humans to resist antibiotics.
• The ability for humans to repel bacteria. 
• The ability for bacteria to resist antibiotics.
• The ability for bacteria to become weak from antibiotics.

Why are bacteria becoming more resistant to antibiotics?

• Bacteria are changing and evolving.
• Humans are using antibiotics correctly.

• Antibiotics are becoming weaker.
• Humans are becoming weaker.

How has antibiotic resistance changed over time?

• It hasn't changed at all
• Antibiotics are being made cheaply and bacteria are becoming more resistant
• Humans are buying less antibiotics and becoming weaker
• Bacteria are becoming more resistant to the antibiotics that are being prescribed

Which one of the statements is true?

• Bacteria are still becoming more resistant to antibiotics
• Antibiotics are being used less
• Humans are becoming more resistant to bacteria
• Antibiotics are becoming weaker

Bacteria develop antibiotic resistance through _____ & _____.

• homeostasis & artificial selection

• mutations & natural selection

• mutations &

  homeostasis

Characteristics that help individuals of a species increase their chances of survival.

• Variations

• Adaptations

• Behaviors

• Environments

When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

Which of the following means "genetic change over time"

• natural selection
• speciation
• evolution
• fitness