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What is the nature of antibiotics?

Updated: 11/17/2022
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antibiotics are the primary and secondary metabolites of many fungi and some bacteria which are used against pathogenic microorganisms. usually antibiotics are protein in nature but may also occure in conjugated form like glycopeotide etc......

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