What Has the Growing and Widespread Use of Antibiotics Led

question 19

Multiple Choice

What has the growing and widespread use of antibiotics led to, with regard to bacteria and viruses?

• A) Antibiotics have wiped out some forms of bacteria and viruses.
• B) The bacteria and viruses have come to use antibiotics as a food source.
• C) In many cases, it has encouraged these pathogens to mutate into a resistant form.
• D) Other illnesses not curable by antibiotics have become more prevalent.

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Definitions:

Id's Desires

Refers to the component of Sigmund Freud's personality theory containing the primitive and instinctive behaviors and urges.

Defense Mechanism

Unconscious psychological mechanisms that reduce anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.

Sublimation

Channeling socially unacceptable impulses and urges into socially acceptable behavior.

Superego

One of the three components of the human psyche in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, representing the internalized societal standards of morality and ethics.