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Why ionophore antibiotics do not kill even your human cells but only bacterial ones?
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Only microbes have ionophones, which are channels in their membranes. By blocking them using antibiotics, the cell will die as they can not bring ions in and out of their cells. Human cells don't have these and so are not affected by those antibiotics.
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Does the human body have more bacterial or human cells?
it has more human cells actually the human body has more bacterial cells. Although it may seem more likely that the human body would have more human cells than bacterial cells. -Vasillisa
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?
How are bacterial cell and human body cell similar?
*there are made of cells *there the basic unite of structure and function *there are cells produced from other cells
Why do antibiotics destroy bacteria cell but do not harm our body's cells?
Antibiotics work by using a metabolic pathway necessary for bacterial (or viral, or fungal) life, but not necessary for human life. An example of this is sulfa drugs. All organisms require folic acid, including humans. Bacteria synthesize their folic acid from PABA (para amino benzoic acid), whereas humans ingest folic acid directly from dietary sources. Therefore, this difference may be exploited, as it is in the case of sulfa antibiotics. Sulfa antibiotics disrupt the pathway from PABA to folic acid in bacteria, but cannot do so in humans (because humans already obtain folic acid directly in dietary form). Different antibiotic classes disrupt different metabolic pathways in bacteria (but, again, not in humans).
What are the drugs that are used to treat bacterial diseases called?
Most of the drugs that treat bacterial disease are called antibiotics.
Why do protein synthesis inhibitor a.k.a antibiotics affect bacteria only but not human cells?
most of the antibiotics kill or inactivate bacteria by inhibitting the protein synthesis... protein synthesis consists of 'transcription' and 'translation'.. the translation process requiers mRNA and ribosomes.Human(eukaryotic) ribosome is different from bacterial(prokaryotic) ribosome... Antibiotics inhibit the protein synthesis by altering the ribosomal constitution.Since human ribosomes are different from bacterial ribosome,the substances which are harmful to bacterial ribosome doesn't harm human ribosomes.. Thus human cells are immune to antibiotics..
What are the compounds that kill bacterial cells without harming the cells of humans?
They are called antibiotics (meaning against life) and generally interfere in only a few specific chemical reactions, those found in bacterial cells but not human cells.
What compound kills bacteria without harming the cells of humans?
They are called antibiotics (meaning against life) and generally interfere in only a few specific chemical reactions, those found in bacterial cells but not human cells.
Does the human body have more bacterial or human cells?
it has more human cells actually the human body has more bacterial cells. Although it may seem more likely that the human body would have more human cells than bacterial cells. -Vasillisa
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?
Antibiotics rely upon differences in the structure of human and bacterial?
ribosomes
Explain why antibiotics are effective at killing bacterial cells but do not seem to have an impact on human cells eukaryotic cells Use at least two examples such as tetracycline erythromycin?
Are you in my biology lab or something? It's not a hard question to research, you idiot
How do chemists use facts to create antibiotics that can destroy a bacterial infection without harming human cells?
Antibiotics attack proteins only found in bacteria. Each one targets a specific area, be it their cell wall, cell membrane, protein synthesis centers, and really any area that differs enough from human cells
Why does penicillin not affect human cells?
This is essentially because bacterial cells and human cells are very different. Both bacterial and human cells use chemicals called enzymes to build their walls. Penicillin is the right chemical "shape" to chemically stick to part of the bacterial enzyme. When it does this, it stops the bacterial enzyme from working properly and this makes the bacterial cell walls weak. The weakened cell wall cannot withstand the outside pressure, it breaks up and the bacterial cell dies. Human cells are made by different types of enzymes with a different chemical shape that penecillin is unable to stick to so it cant stop the human enzymes from working. The human cell walls are thus unaffected by it and they remain strong.
How do chemists used scientific processes to develops a solution to human bacterial infections?
With Antibiotics
What do bacterial cells and human skin cells plant cells have in common?
they all have numbers
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).
