Biotechnology Advantages And Disadvantages

Antibiotics:- antibiotics are medication which destroy or slow down the growth of bacteria, they are used to treat infections which are caused by bacteria. Most of the time the body’s immune system can fight off bacteria but in cases in which the body cannot antibiotics are used to destroy them. Antibiotics are either given orally, applied to the skin in ointment form or injected, this all depends on the type of infection the body is currently trying to fight off, for example skin infections are treated with ointment, oral antibiotics are used to fight of moderate infections and injective antibiotics are most commonly used in

Antibiotics either stop the bacterial cell from reproducing or kill the cell. They can disrupt the bacteria by deterring

Antibiotics, composed of microorganisms such as streptomycin and penicillin, kill other infectious microorganisms in the human body. At one point, antibiotics were considered to have “basically wiped out infection in the United States”, but due to their overuse and evolutionary

Another benefit of vaccines is that they have eradicated some illnesses. There are some illnesses, such as polio and smallpox, that have been diminished by vaccines. The author states in “Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?” “In the twentieth century, there were 16,316 deaths from polio and 29,004 deaths from smallpox yearly in the United States; in 2012 there were no reported cases of polio or smallpox.” Those disease have diminished because vaccines have prevented the diseases, and eventually, the diseases were eliminated. Because of vaccines, there are some illnesses that are

The misuse and overdose of the antibiotics increase the resistance problem. It can cause these bacteria to

Vaccinations/Immunization, allows for individuals to become resistant to infection, caused by a pathogen. Vaccines, either oral or injected, are prepared with a weakened or dead disease causing microorganisms /pathogens. This vaccine is given with the intensions of provoking a immune response to the disease, on a minor level. This vaccination allows for the immune response to create antibodies, and memory cells, so that if infected with a strong version of the pathogen, the body will be immune.

Vaccines protect the body from infection. When your immune system comes in contact with a bacteria or virus, this infection begins to attack your body. Your immune system then has to fight the infection off, by producing antibodies. People who are vaccinated are introduced to a minor version of an infection, but this infection does not cause infection. This causes the

Vaccine’s benefit human lives in many ways that wouldn’t be possible without them such as “Vaccines are responsible for many global public health successes, such as the eradication of Smallpox, and the significant reductions in other serious infections, like Polio and Measles”(Ben Balding). First of all vaccines decrease healthcare costs. Although this may sound backwards by having the cost of the vaccine itself, but by receiving these vaccines and protecting yourself from these diseases you will save yourself money rather than not getting vaccines. See if you don’t receive these vaccines that are provided then you put yourself up at risk to catch these serious diseases. About 29% of deaths in children 1-59 months are vaccine preventable.If these diseases enter your body, then you will have the costs of treatment, prescriptions, and even hospitalization in your mailbox. Research shows that the cost of getting vaccinated is less than a fraction of the price of getting the disease and having to treat it. Secondly, vaccines decrease the number of deaths caused by these diseases and instead, increase the number of lives. Studies show that the conduction of these vaccines have proven to decrease the spread of these diseases to a minimal amount. This shows that vaccines

Vaccination is the process of creating immunity to a disease by intentionally infecting an individual with a weakened form of that disease. This triggers the immune system to develop anti-bodies that remain to fight off future attacks. Vaccines hold the same germs that cause disease, but the disease has already

Vaccines and vaccinations are two different things. A product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered through needle injections, by mouth, or by aerosol is called a vaccine (Basics). The injection of a killed or weakened organism that produces immunity in the body against that organism is a vaccination (Basics). A vaccine can help prevent many different and serious diseases. When you get a vaccine it will work with your body to try and protect it. When a vaccine enters your body it will create a complex system of cells and organs that evolve to fight off infectious microbes inside of your immune system (Basics). Much of the immune system’s work is carried out by a group of different specialized cells, each type designed

found that both the drug and the bacteria use enzymes as their defense and attack

When antibiotic is used most of the bacteria die but a few bacteria with antibiotic resistance gene survive and reproduce and pass this advantage to their offsprings. This selective pressure exists naturally, however antibiotic misuse can be accused for fastening the spread of the antibiotic resistance gene [Refer to figure 2] (Learn Genetics 2015). Consequently, inappropriate antibiotic intake will lead to a greater chance of superbugs being developed. Antibiotic resistance can be defined as a new ability which a bacterium has developed to stay unattached in the presence of an antibiotic that was previously effective to destroy the bacterium (ABC science 2015). Four key mechanisms that has been identified for bacterial antibiotic resistance can be listed as: producing enzymes that inhibit the functionality of the drug, reducing the effectiveness of the drug by producing targets against which the antibiotic, reducing the permeability of the drug into the bacterium and active export of antibiotics using various pumps (Pogson 2012). All these mechanisms can be developed by any of the bacteria when the corresponding mutated gene of antibacterial resistance is received. The genes code for specific proteins, and variation in the gene leads to alteration of the shape of proteins. This leads to changing the functionality

Bacteria can be a scary thing, but some people do not even know what bacteria is but doctors have created antibiotics to destroy it. “Many people are unaware what bacteria are and how antibiotics control them.”(Voss, Bristol) Basically bacteria a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease. Antibiotics are used to destroy bacteria, but if a person is prescribed too many antibiotics they may become immune to antibiotics forever and have to live without a strong immune system. Antibiotics attacks bacteria by preventing it from building a wall to defend itself from the body's immune system. So the body’s immune system can easily kill the bacteria.

A vaccine works by tricking the body’s immune system into creating antibodies that fight an innocuous form of the virus. The antibodies then remain in the body, and if the person encounters the real virus, they are protected against it. The history of vaccines actually goes as far back as 200BC India or China, when it was discovered that some diseases do not infect those who have already been infected by it. This discovery led people to infect themselves with inoculated matter, thus protecting them from the disease. The first vaccine dates back to 1796 when Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine using a weakend version of the cowpox disease. The concept of vaccinations through inoculation is considered by many to be one of the great science revelations of the 20th century.

Antibiotics was developed to combat bacteria by zero in on the bacteria’s structure. As time goes by bacteria can defeat antibiotics in their natural selection. Natural selection plays an important role in the progression of antibiotic resistance. Most of the bacteria dies when it is exposed to antibiotics they are sensitive to. Therefore, it creates more space and availability of nutrients for the surviving antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Subsequently,