Drugs & Medicines
This lesson covers:
- What medications are
- What painkillers are
- What antibiotics are
A _________ is a drug that is used to prevent, treat or relieve the symptoms of disease.
medication
hallucinogen
antibody
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What is a pathogen?
A microorganism that causes disease
An organism that transfers a disease from one organism to another
A substance that damages cells
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Do painkillers help to cure the underlying disease?
Yes
No
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Which of the following types of drugs are used to relieve the symptoms of disease?
Painkillers
Antibiotics
Statins
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Which of the following drugs are used as painkillers?
(Select all that apply)
Simvastatin
Aspirin
Penicillin
Paracetamol
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Which of the following measures could help to reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance?
(Select all that apply)
Doctors only prescribing antibiotics for serious bacterial infections
Patients taking antibiotics for the full prescribed course
Giving more antibiotics to farm animals
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Which type(s) of organisms can antibiotics kill?
Fungi
Viruses
Protoctists
Bacteria
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How do antibiotics help to cure bacterial infections?
They bind to pathogens and encourage our immune cells to destroy them
They reduce the symptoms caused by the bacteria
They directly kill bacterial cells
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True or false? Different antibiotics are effective against different strains of bacteria.
True
False
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Occasionally, bacteria can evolve so that antibiotics no longer kill them.
In these cases we say that the bacteria has developed .
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