Most antibiotics act by disrupting the ribosomes in bacterial protein synthesis. Why do antibiotics not disrupt the human patient’s protein synthesis as well?
a. The DNA in bacteria is highly specialized so the drugs only work on their DNA.
b. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes go through different stages except elongation.
c. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes are very different from each other.
d. Antibiotics do disrupt human protein synthesis, which is why we only take very low dosages.
c. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes are very different from each other.
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