Question

Why do antibiotics show their action on bacteria but not on virus?
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Answer 1

Antibiotics does the job of destroying the cell wall, thus collapsing the chemical composition of the cell in the organisms which have a cell wall like bacteria eventually killing the cell.

But viruses do not have cell wall so antibiotics don't act on them.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Viruses are different to bacteria; they have a different structure and a different way of surviving. Viruses don’t have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics; instead they are surrounded by a protective protein coat.

Unlike bacteria, which attack our body’s cells from the outside, viruses actually move into, live in and make copies of themselves in our body’s cells. Viruses can't reproduce on their own, like bacteria do, instead they attach themselves to healthy cells and reprogram those cells to make new viruses.  It is because of all of these differences that antibiotics don’t work on viruses.

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