Question

Which of the following is an antibiotic?
A. sodium bicarbonate
B. streptomycein
C. alcohol
D. yeast

Answer 1

Answer:

streptomycein is the answer

Answer 2

B. streptomycin

Explanation:

Streptomycin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections. This includes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, endocarditis, brucellosis, Burkholderia infection, plague, tularemia, and rat bite fever. It acts by binding to the 30S ribosomal subunit of susceptible organisms and disrupting the initiation and elongation steps in protein synthesis. It is bactericidal due to effects that are not fully understood.

Option B is the answer.