Combined Science GCSE
Natural selection of resistant bacteria
What Natural selection of resistant bacteria means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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When an antibiotic is used, susceptible bacteria die while resistant bacteria survive and reproduce, so the resistant strain spreads.
Topics that use Natural selection of resistant bacteria
- Antibiotics and painkillers (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotics
- Difference between antibiotics and antivirals
- Painkillers
- Resistant strain
- Risk of side effects from antiviral treatment
- Selectivity of antiviral drugs
- Symptom relief versus pathogen destruction
- Viral replication inside host cells
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