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Topic 15: Drugs

3 subtopics · The smallest topic on the syllabus — five objectives, and a lot of data to read

📖 Open Full Study Guide → 🏆 Challenge Prep Guide — Master the tricky questions
Heads up — every Biology exam here is Challenge level. There are no standard mocks for Biology: all six papers for this topic are deliberately harder than a normal Cambridge paper. So read your scores in that light — a mark that looks low here would usually be higher on a real paper.
15.1
What a Drug Is, and What Antibiotics Do
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The definition Cambridge wants, and treating bacterial infection
15.2
Resistance, and Why Antibiotics Do Nothing to Viruses
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Why a virus is untouchable, and what resistance actually means
15.3
Using Antibiotics Well — and MRSA
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Finishing the course, prescribing only when essential, and how resistance spreads
15.4
Exam Technique & the Vocabulary That Scores
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The bacterium is resistant, never the person
📝 Topic 15 Challenge Exams
3 × Paper 2 (MCQ) · 3 × Paper 4 (Theory) · all Challenge level
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