What is antibiotic?

Question:

What is antibiotic? Give two examples. (CCE 2012)

Solution:

Antibiotic. It is a biochemical produced by a microbe which kills or blocks growth of other microbes (e.g. bacteria) by blocking their life processes without harming human cells, e.g., Penicillin, Streptomycin.

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