Question

What are antibiotic? How are they produced?

Answer 1

Antibiotics are medicines that help stop infections caused by bacteria. They do this by killing the bacteria or by keeping them from copying themselves or reproducing. The word antibiotic means “against life.” Any drug that kills germs in your body is technically an antibiotic.Antibiotics are chemicals that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and are used to treat bacterial infections. They are produced in nature by soil bacteria and fungi.

Answer 2

The chemicals produced by microorganism kill , or inhabit , the growth of other human microorganism. Antibiotics are produced from bacteria and fungi.

Example:- Pencillin , Streptomycin Tetracycline etc.