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Assignment:
Microbiology Lecture: Antimicrobials Potential Exam Questions
1. What do antibiotics target in bacteria that doesn't exist in humans?
2. How does factory farming lead to antibiotic resistance?
3. Why aren't antibiotics seen as profitable by pharmaceutical companies?
4. What would a chemical that kills nematodes (round worms) be called?
5. Many antimicrobials come from microbes themselves. Why do you think microbes would produce molecules that harm other microbes?
6. You are developing a new antibiotic. What are some your goals for this new antibiotic?
7. Look at the graph on slide 13 of this lecture. Which version of penicillin has the shortest half life?
8. How does antibiotic resistance spread from one bacterial species to another?
9. Which would take longer to clear from the body, a drug with a short half life or a drug with a long half life?
10. Which is less precise and more random, a broad spectrum antibiotic or a narrow one?
Challenge Questions
1. In your own words, explain the concept of synergy.
2. What is the mechanism of penicillin? How does it stop bacterial growth?