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How does Tetracycline kill bacteria? What is selective toxicity in antibiotics? Is Tetracycline selectively toxic? Please explain your answer;...

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  • How does Tetracycline kill bacteria?
  • What is selective toxicity inantibiotics?
  • Is Tetracycline selectively toxic? Pleaseexplain your answer; in other words, how or whyTetracycline is or is not selectively toxic?

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How does Tetracycline kill bacteria Answer Tetracycline is an antibiotic that inhibits the process of Translation in bacteria Thus it inhibits the protein synthesis process It exerts the inhibition by reversibly binding 30S ribosomal subunit of bacteria at the Asite As a result the incoming aminoacyltRNA gets blocked due to which the process of translation    See Answer
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