生命的探索抗生素（英文PPT）.ppt

Lab 1 Biology: Exploring Life Antibiotics Too Much of a Good Thing? Antibiotics Your doctor prescribes an antibiotic and specifically cautions you to take every pill. Why? Antibiotics Checkpoint Antibiotics Checkpoint Antibiotics Checkpoint Antibiotics Checkpoint Antibiotics Checkpoint Antibiotics Biology and Society Antibiotics Discussion Question The development of antibiotic resistance by bacteria illustrates how natural selection affects our lives. Can you name another way our society experiences the effects of natural selection? Follow-Up Questions Is it likely that insect or plant pests (weeds) might develop resistance to pesticides and herbicides? Some plants, like BT corn and BT cotton, are being engineered to include a pesticide gene. What do you predict to be the long-term success of such a strategy? What strategies should a farmer employ to prevent pests from becoming resistant? Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is not the only case in which humans are causing pressures that contribute to the natural selection of a population. Other examples include insect resistance to BT corn, BT cotton, and other natural and genetically altered crops (/nsu/021202/021202-2.html). A great deal of research is being conducted to develop strategies to prevent pest populations from developing pesticide resistance (/ECB.pdf). Antibiotics Biology and Society Antibiotics Biology and Society Antibiotics Summary Antibiotics Preventing the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is in the hands of every individual. What actions will you take? Five Steps of the scientific method Observation come from others or results of earlier tests Questions are asked about unclear aspects of the observations: How? Why? When? Hypotheses are tentative explanation of a phenomenon phrased in such a way as to be testable. Predictions are logical, testable outcomes of the hypotheses developed by the use of deductive reasoning. Predictions take the form of if (statement of hypotheses) i