Biology
Biology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780321794260
Author: Audesirk, Teresa/ Audesirk
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Chapter 36.7, Problem 1CYL
Summary Introduction

To explain:

The way through which antibiotics and vaccines supplement the human immune response.

Introduction:

Antibiotics can be generated either alone or by different groups of microorganisms such as bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi. More than thirty antibiotics have been isolated from those groups.

A biological preparation, which helps in the formation of active acquired immunity to a particular disease, is termed as a vaccine. A vaccine accounts for disease-causing microbes.

Summary Introduction

To describe:

The way in which antibiotic resistance arises.

Introduction:

Antibiotics are sometimes naturally formed chemicals which are released by soil fungi and bacteria to their environment. Antibodies have the ability to compete against microbial communities. The saturation of antibiotics into the surroundings deeply affects the evolution of bacteria. Antibiotics eradicate the bacteria that are susceptible to departing from the resistant.

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