how do antibiotics say penicillin kill bacteria but not human cells?
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they act on the tough capsule of bacteria and the bacteria 's cell wall undergo lysis and thereby kill bacteria..
they are specially made to dissolve the bacterial membrane and act only over that.
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Antibiotics are simply chemicals that kills prokaryotic cells but do not harm eukaryotic cells.They are natural chemicals produced by fungi and bacteria that act to control their bacterial competitors.
Example:streptomycin stops protein synthesis in prokaryotic cells by binding to their unusual ribosomes
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