Extra Credit: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteriahttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/Define each of the following terms (Use a respectable resource like NIH or CDC):1. Staphylococcus aureus:

2. MRSA:

3. Difference between Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria:

4. Methicillin:

5. beta-lactam antibiotics:

6. NDM-1, KPC (and other beta-lactamase) enzymes:

7. How do beta-lactam drugs work? (what do peptidoglycan and transpeptidase have to do with this)?

How bacteria transfer resistance genes (consult your text):1. What is a plasmid and how is it different than a chromosome?

2. What is transformation?

3. What is conjugation?

4. What is transduction?

(From the video) Why are antibiotics much less attractive for pharmaceutical companies to produce than drugs that treat high cholesterol, for example?

(From any respectable resource) How did Alexander Fleming first discover penicillin? (The story is amazing.)