Question

Explain why antibiotics do not work against viruses but work against many groups of bacteria.

Answer 1

Antibiotics are produced by microorganisms to kill or control the growth of other microorganisms by blocking specific metabolic pathways within the cell. Since bacteria are so different to human cells, antibiotics can be taken by humans to kill bacteria without harming the human cells. Viruses on the other hand are different as they do not carry out many metabolic processes themselves. Instead they rely on a host cell (a human cell) to carry out these processes for them. Therefore viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics as it is impossible to harm the virus without harming the human cells.

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Answer 2

antibiotics produced by microorganisms to kill control the growth of microorganism by block specific metalloids pathway within the cell therefore virus can. not treated with antibiotic as it impossible harm virus without harming the human cell