Monday, May 3, 2010

EVOLUTION: 2 articles

1. BACTERIA RUN WILD, DEFYING ANTIBIOTICS Source NY Times
A new chapter in the continuing story of antibiotic resistance is being written in doctors' offices across the country

2. HUMAN CULTURE, AN EVOLUTIONARY FORCE. Source NY Times
Genes enabling lactose tolerance, which probably resulted in more surviving offspring, were detected in cultures like the Kenyan shepherd's

QUESTIONS:
1. How do these articles relate to the Living Environment curriculum?
2. (article 1) Why can the new resistant staph be treated with several common antibiotics different from the ones doctors are accustomed to using?

5 comments:

  1. It relates to the Living Environment curriculum because this explains and shows adaptations. I was also wondering, if bacteria can adapt to the antibiotics, can't the antibiotics also adapt? or they can't because they're not living?

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  2. how will we learn how to make an antibiotic harmful against resistant bacteria?

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  3. i think its sort of scary if the bacteria adapt to the antibiotic so i am sort of against using antibiotics.

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  4. i find that we should study all of the bacteria that there is antibioitic for,and then the ones that have the majority of reisistant bacteria should be banned


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  5. 1. How do these articles relate to the Living Environment curriculum?
    How these articles relate to the Living Environment curriculum is is explains and shows adaptations, and how (in article 1)the individuals in a species with a mutation (or a resistance with antibiotics) can reproduce and become more popular.
    2. (article 1) Why can the new resistant staph be treated with several common antibiotics different from the ones doctors are accustomed to using?
    The new resistant staph was originally genetically resistant to the antibiotics doctors are accustomed to using, and will die off with other antibiotics.

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