Question

How are antibiotics able to target the bacteria cells but not the healthy cells within your body?

Answer 1

Answer:Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cells do not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibiotic penicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall.

Some antibiotics dissolve the membrane of just bacterial cells.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cells do not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibiotic penicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall.