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What specific bacterial cell structure do penicillin drugs target?
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Penicillin weakens the bacterial peptidoglycan cell wall by interfering with the final linking of the peptidoglycan rows by peptide cross bridges.
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What is a Specific structure that responds to a particular hormone?
Target Organ
Hormones act at specific target organs because these organs contain what specific for the hormone?
target cells
What type of structure would a hormone's target posses that other non-target organs would not?
Receptors for that hormone
How does one refer to the organ or structure toward which the effects of a hormone are directed?
Target organ can be defined as the organ or structure toward which the effects of a hormone are primarily directed. The target organ's activity levels demonstrate change in the course of biofeedback.
Is a T4 bacteriophage virus living or non living?
Bacteriophage viruses are nonliving. They are DNA or RNA encapsulated in a protein coated capsule with recognition sites to bind to specific target sites on bacteria and insert their genetic material for viral replication or to induce changes in the bacterial genetic material.
What cell structure does penicillin target?
Cell Wall
Why do antibiotics work against bacteria and not viruses?
Antibiotics disrupt bacterial cell processes that result in either killing the bacteria, preventing it from reproducing, or preventing it from causing symptoms in humans. For example: penicillin disrupts the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall in mostly gram positive bacteria. This prevents the growth of the target bacteria. Any gram negative bacteria will be unaffected by penicillin because they have a different process of synthesizing cell walls that is not disrupted by penicillin. Viruses don't even have a cell wall, they have a protein coat and sometimes an envelope. Neither of these are affected by penicillin. So antibiotics target specific processes that only occur in specific types of bacteria, so each antibiotic will only work on some bacteria and never on viruses. The virus version of antibiotics are called interferon, they disrupt processes that are specific to viruses.
What is a Specific structure that responds to a particular hormone?
Target Organ
What is Target Corporation's Organizational Structure?
what is target's organiational structure
Why do antibiotics kill bacteria and not human cells?
Because bacterial cells and human cells aren't the same. Penicillin works by interfering with how bacterial cell walls are built, and human cells don't have bacterial cell walls. (Turns out all bacterial cells aren't the same, either, but penicillin works against a lot of them.) One of the challenges in medicine is finding antibiotics that work against bacteria's biology, but that don't interfere with human biology. This is called selectivity. It's a really important principle of medications against all infections (you want the drug to selectively kill the infecting organism instead of your own cells) and against cancer, too (you want the drug to selectively kill the cancer cells instead of the healthy ones).
What three Specific Job Positions do you target from the bank Industry?
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Hormones act at specific target organs because these organs contain what specific for the hormone?
target cells
What group of antibiotics would mycoplasma be resistant to?
Mycoplasma lack cell walls. Therefore, any antibiotic that targets the cell wall of bacteria would be ineffective to mycoplasma. Examples are beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillin. Beta-lactam antibiotics target the synthesis of peptidoglycan, an important component of the bacterial cell wall.
What is the difference of a point target and an area target?
Point target is when you are trying to hit a specific point. The area target is when you land within the vicinity of the target.
What is the difference between optimal capital structure and target capital structure?
optimal capital structure means using the resources of capital optimally, at is where they can utilised properly. target capital structure means investment made in the certain project so that they can utilise the resource of capital properly.
Does target capital structure exclude preferred stock?
yes
Target cells are equipped with specific receptor molecules?
Target cells are equipped with specific receptor molecules and may occur in any part of the body. ACTH has target cells that are in the adrenal cortex.
