Antibiotics do not work on viruses because viruses are intracellular, lack cell walls, and do not possess the metabolic mechanisms that antibiotics target.
1 - inside cells 2 - don't have cell walls 3 - don't have metabolic mechanisms to disrupt
| Front | Why don't antibiotics work on viruses? (3) |
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| Back | 1 - inside cells 2 - don't have cell walls 3 - don't have metabolic mechanisms to disrupt |
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