Why Would It Be More Difficult to Treat Diseases in Humans

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Multiple Choice

Why would it be more difficult to treat diseases in humans caused by members of the Eukarya than diseases caused by the Bacteria?

• A)Multicellular organisms always have their own immune systems to contend with-so any treatment we develop needs to overcome this built-in protection mechanism in such organisms.
• B)Since bacteria are so much simpler (being single-celled),they are inherently easier to kill off than multi-cellular eukaryotic microbes.
• C)Eukaryotic microbes use many of the same enzymes and systems as humans-so we lose the ability to target certain molecules that might be present ONLY in the cell type we want to eliminate.There's too much overlap when both organisms are eukaryotic.
• D)Eukaryotic microbes (unlike prokaryotes)often secrete compounds that breakdown and eliminate drugs used against them.This makes them much harder to effectively eliminate than bacteria.

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