Writing Assignment #3- Biol 100 Fall 2019
Please watch the You Tube video: (hit control and click on mouse to open)
Antibiotic Resistance | Are we creating super viruses? – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zENv5EDElgA
Find one other outside source to support your essay (CDC website or .gov website), it can be a webpage, review article or a primary literature article.
Please write an essay in paragraph format answering the following questions in your essay.
- How do bacteria become antibiotic resistant bacteria? How and what do they use to acquire antibiotic resistant bacterial genes?
- What are some of the factors that are at the root of the problem that are giving rise to the resistant bacteria epidemic?
- What type of bacteria are most likely to become resistant faster? Gram positive or gram negative and why is this so?
- What can increase occurrence antibiotic resistant genes in plants? Are these resistant genes transferred to humans?
- Where can antibiotic resistance genes be found in the natural environment?
- Why are the development of new antibiotics slowed by pharmaceutical companies? What is being done about developing new antibiotics?
- What are bacteriophages and how they helping the problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria?
- What is “phage therapy” and how is this working for humans? What infections is it being used to treat?
- Provide a summary statement or paragraph about the antibiotic resistance video. What did you learn?