An Agent Would Make a Good Antibiotic If It Affected

question 64

Multiple Choice

An agent would make a good antibiotic if it affected a structure or process only found in bacterial cells and not in our (eukaryotic) cells.Which of the following actions would theoretically make a good antibiotic?

• A)prevents repair of the peptidoglycan cell wall
• B)damages the nuclear membrane
• C)damages DNA
• D)prevents ribosomes from producing proteins
• E)stops cellular respiration

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