BI-285
Antibiotic resistance
Biology · Secondary 3 · Hard · Antibiotic resistance
A doctor advises a patient not to stop taking antibiotics halfway through the course. Which reason best explains this advice in terms of antibiotic resistance?
- Stopping early allows more resistant bacteria to survive and reproduce.
- Stopping early makes the antibiotics become poisonous to human cells.
- Finishing the course makes bacteria mutate into harmless forms.
- Finishing the course prevents the immune system from producing antibodies.
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