When a chemotherapeutic agent is effective against many different pathogens, it is said to be a ________ antibiotic.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


broad-spectrum

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Use your knowledge of amino acid characteristics to order the peptides below by their degree of polarity. Each peptide contains eight amino acids

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