Chapter 1, Problem 3Q

What is the significance of antibiotics in medicine?

What does the acronym AGP represent?

What are the three categories of biological agents?

What are the similarities and differences between the functions of antibiotics, antiseptics, and disinfectants?

What is commercially produced by biotechnological procedures?

What happens when you put chemicals in the body?

What is the difference between an antiseptic and a disinfectant?  A. Antiseptics are used against microbes on non living objects, disinfectants are used on living tissue.  B. Antiseptics are used against microbes outside the body, and disinfectants are used inside the body.  C. Antiseptics are used against microbes inside the body, disinfectants are used outside the body.  D. Antiseptics are bactericidal against microbes, disinfectants are bacteriostatic.  E. Antiseptics are used against microbes on living tissue, disinfectants are used on non living objects.