IMMUNE RESPONSE
CLASSICAL ALTERNATE AND LECTIN PATHWAYS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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viruses have a high rate of mutation
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viruses have no RNA
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viruses have no metabolism
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viruses have a protein shell that protects them
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Detailed explanation-1: -The antibiotics have no effect on viruses because viruses show no metabolism of their own. The antibiotic has no “target” to attack in a virus, they have effect on bacteria. A virus is not a living cell.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Antibiotics act on bacteria and fungi by blocking certain biochemical activities necessary for the living of bacteria. On the other hand, the virus has very few biochemical processes which are hard to target for an antibiotic. Hence antibiotics are not effective against viruses.
Detailed explanation-3: -They block metabolic processes that occur in prokaryotic cells, but not eukaryotic cells. Viruses lack a metabolism and therefore cannot be treated with antibiotics. Some strains of bacteria have evolved with genes that confer resistance to antibiotics and some strains of bacteria have multiple resistance.