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Most antibiotics kill invading bacteria while minimally harming the host by?
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targeting structures found only in bacterial cells and not the host cells
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3. a) The flowchart below shows the pathway a protein takes from its production to its destination either inside or outside the cell.?
b) Antibiotics destroy a bacterial infection by disabling ribosomes in the bacteria. Eukarotic cells contain mitochondria that themselves contain ribosomes while bacterial cells have no organelles and thus have uncontained ribosomes. How do chemists use this fact to create antibiotics that can destroy a bacterial infection without harming human cells?
