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Stopping Superbugs! Quiz

1. What is so dangerous about "superbugs"?
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2. You need to test whether different types of bacteria are resistant to a newly developed drug. In your experiment, you treat the same number of bacteria for each group with one dose of the drug for 10 days. Counting the number of bacteria surviving after each dose, you get the results shown below. Which type of bacteria is most resistant to the tested drug?
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3. In your antibiotic treatment model, bacteria survive when a six-sided die shows the numbers 1, 2 or 3. What is the probability that this bacteria is killed after one dose of antibiotics?
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4. You have a mixture of three types of bacteria with different genetic traits: bacteria 1 grows at low temperatures, bacteria 2 at medium temperatures, and bacteria 3 prefers high temperatures. How can you ensure that more of bacteria 3 survive?
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5. What can you do to reduce the spreading of antibiotic resistance in bacteria?
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