Bacteria, Antibiotics and Resistance

Lesson 2

These videos introduces you to the problem of antibiotic resistance and begins to introduce you to bacteria.

 
 

Bacterial Cell Wall

We begin to learn about bacteria with the membrane and cell wall which are common targets for antibiotics and play a role in preventing antibiotics from entering a cell.

 

Bacterial Cell Structure

We continue to look at the cell structure highlighting structures important for antibiotic action.

 

Bacterial Cell Growth

How do bacterial cells grow and divide? We need to know this in order to understand how antibiotics work to kill bacteria or stop them from growing.

 

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