Biology 9700 · AS & A Level · Antibiotics

Antibiotics — practice question

Smallpox, measles and HIV/AIDS are infectious diseases caused by different viruses. These viruses have some shared structural features.
(a)[1]

State one structural feature that would show a pathogen is a virus.

(b)[2]

The virus causing smallpox is in a different genus from the virus causing measles. Name the viruses that cause these diseases. smallpox; measles

(c)[2]

Explain why antibiotics, such as penicillin, cannot be used against measles.

(d)[1]

Antibiotics may be given to a person with HIV/AIDS. Suggest why antibiotics may be prescribed for a person with HIV/AIDS.

(e(i))[4]

Discuss how the reasons given in Fig. 2.1 helped the eradication of smallpox succeed.

(e(ii))[1]

Table 2.1 sets out four types of immunity. Fill in each row of Table 2.1 with a tick (✓) or a cross (\times) to show the kinds of immunity acquired by a person who received the smallpox vaccine.

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