Many antibiotics work by attacking various stages in the production of peptidoglycan in the cell wall...

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  1. Many antibiotics work by attacking various stages in theproduction of peptidoglycan in the cell wall of bacteria. Bacteriaand Archaea are both prokaryotes that possess a cell wall. Yetantibiotics such as penicillin disrupts the cell wall ofsusceptible bacteria but generally do not affect Archaea at all.Why?

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Bacteria and Archaea both are prokaryotes but they belong to two different domains of life Antibiotics like Penicillin are effective against most of the Eubacteria Penicillin    See Answer
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