An antibiotic works by disrupting peptidoglycan cell wall biosynthesis. Which of the following statement is TRUE?Group of answer choicesIt will kill fungi because they have cell walls made of chitinIt will not kill viruses because they do not have cell wallIt will kill viruses because they have nucleocapsid structureIt will kill bacteriophage but not enveloped virus
Question
An antibiotic works by disrupting peptidoglycan cell wall biosynthesis. Which of the following statement is TRUE?Group of answer choicesIt will kill fungi because they have cell walls made of chitinIt will not kill viruses because they do not have cell wallIt will kill viruses because they have nucleocapsid structureIt will kill bacteriophage but not enveloped virus
Solution
The statement "It will not kill viruses because they do not have cell wall" is TRUE. Antibiotics target the cell walls of bacteria, and since viruses do not have cell walls, they are not affected by antibiotics. Viruses have a protein coat called a capsid, not a cell wall. Therefore, antibiotics cannot disrupt their structure or function.
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Which of the following antibacterial drugs targets the cell wall of bacteria?ANSWERCiprofloxacinVancomycinPolymyxin BClindamycin
Which of the following is not one of the three main ways microbes evade antimicrobial drugs?ANSWERLimit production of peptidoglycanPump drugs outAlter the drug’s targetInactivate drugs
Antibiotics in the penicillin class kill bacteria by inhibiting production of Blank______.Multiple choice question.the cell wallflagellabacterial proteinsbacterial DNA
Which of the following are differences between bacteria cells and human cells that allow antibiotics to target and kill bacteria while leaving human cells unharmed? Group of answer choicesCell wallRibosomesDNA gyraseRNA polymeraseAll of the above are antibiotic targets
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