BI-306
Antibiotics
Biology · Secondary 3 · Medium · Antibiotics
Antibiotics like erythromycin are often prescribed to treat bacterial infections but not viral infections. Which statement best explains why antibiotics are ineffective against viruses?
- Viruses have very thick cell walls that antibiotics cannot penetrate.
- Viruses do not have the cellular structures that antibiotics act on.
- Viruses are too small for antibiotics to bind to them.
- Viruses grow too quickly for antibiotics to have any effect.
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