Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance | 11/5/18-11/9/18


Summary:

       Antibiotic resistance is when a consumer consumes the antibiotic drugs more than prescripted. This allows bacteria to grow resistant to the antibiotic drug faster than at a regular pace. When the bacteria gains resistant to the antibiotic the only resort is to use a stronger (and more expensive) antibiotic biotic. Bacteria’s resistance towards antibiotics are absurd. Being able to go through versions of antibiotics multiplied, once, ten times, one hundred times, and even one thousand times in less than 11 days. The bacteria evolves and gains resistance of the antibiotics so fast it becomes terrifying. This means that humans can be in severe danger as bacteria are becoming incredibly resistant to antibiotics which is what most humans rely on to fight bacteria, viruses, and diseases. Natural selection influences the effectiveness of antibiotics and the virulence of infectious agents through the most fit bacteria (diseases, and/or viruses) that is resistant towards antibiotics reproducing and the bacteria that is not resistant dying off. This will cause only strong bacteria to be alive and thus making antibiotics almost pointless as they won’t do much to stop the evolved bacteria. So natural selection of bacteria, viruses, and diseases will eventually lead to almost all of these harmful things to be resistant towards antibiotics, drugs, and medicine. So, natural selection will essentially make antibiotics ineffective through evolving bacteria, diseases, and viruses to make them immune to antibiotics.

S&EP 6-Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions:

The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish by Rkishony
       I constructed an explanation of how natural selection influences the effectiveness of antibiotics and the virulence of infectious agents when researching to develop a public relations campaign to help inform the general public about the threat of antibiotic resistance. I constructed this explanation by following the ACE strategy where your explanation consists of an answer, cite, and extension/explanation. Through doing so, I created a very complete response to this question that can truly give a better understanding on the topic. It teaches you how natural selection effects antibiotics, where we got that information (how we know), and a further extension of how we know and where we got that information. Natural selection changes the effectiveness of antibiotics through the most fit bacteria (the bacteria that is resistant towards antibiotics) living long enough to pass on their superior traits/genes. This can be seen in a video created by Science News titled, "Watch Antibiotic Resistance Evolve." In this video bacteria go through versions of antibiotics multiplied, once, ten times, one hundred times, and even one thousand times in less than 11 days. This allows us to understand that over time, the only bacteria that will be left are bacteria that are not affected by antibiotics. Thus causing antibiotics to be pointless, and over time, less and less effective.


XCC-Stability and Change:

       The system that I identified this week is the system between antibiotics and bacteria. The system is that as humans continue to use more antibiotics to fight bacteria. Bacteria evolves through a process known as natural selection and becomes more resistant towards the antibiotics that we are using. What would make this process more stable is taking prescribed vaccinations from doctors and cleaning up scratches, scrapes, cuts, wounds, etc. As well as critical or chronic conditions. Two other ways would be being able to recognize if a wound is infected; contact or get further help and clean the environment around you, anything and everything carries germs and bacteria. THe last way would be just to use antibiotics more responsibly and wisely (through using them less often and only when you really need them).



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