Why is there not a clinical distinction between bacteriostatic and bactericidal antibiotics?
What will be an ideal response?
An antimicrobial drug that is bactericidal for one pathogen may be bacteriostatic for another. Furthermore, a drug's bactericidal or bacteriostatic properties can change based on the drug dose, length of the drug regimen, pathogen load, and route of administration.
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a. chlorophytes. b. cladophorophytes. c. chaetophytes. d. charophytes. e. coccinophytes
Auxin
A) promotes cell division. B) stimulates flowering. C) promotes phototropism. D) causes the development of an abscission layer. E) inhibits stem elongation.
The overall equation for the cellular respiration of glucose is
A) C5H12O6 + 6 O2 ? 5 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy. B) 5 CO2 + 6 H2O ? C5H12O6 + 6 O2 + energy. C) C6H12O6 + 6 O2 ? 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy. D) C6H12O6 + energy ? 6 CO2+ 6 H2O + 6 O2.
The regulation of expression of the C. elegans gene lin14 by lin4 was one of the first known animal examples of
a. a gain-of-function mutation. b. nested genes. c. a riboswitch. d. an antisense gene. e. RNA interference.