Antibiotics and Their Mechanisms Quiz

How antibiotics stop bacterial growth by targeting essential bacterial metabolic pathways.

A bacterial metabolic pathway essential for bacterial growth, targeted by particular antibiotics.

Antibiotics that inhibit folic acid synthesis in bacteria.

Antibiotics that also inhibit folic acid synthesis, often used in combination with sulfonamides.

The effect of antibiotics that keep bacteria from multiplying.

Essential series of chemical reactions in bacteria that the antibiotics target to stop their growth.

Specificity of an antibiotic to affect bacterial metabolic pathways, not human cells.

Antibiotics that disrupt protein synthesis in bacteria by targeting their ribosome subunits (30S or 50S), leading to cellular dysfunction and death.

Example of antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis by targeting bacterial ribosomes.

Antibiotics that interfere with DNA and RNA synthesis, essential for bacterial replication, leading to bacterial death.

Antibiotics that hinder DNA replication, a critical process for bacteria.

Antibiotics that target bacterial processes other than protein or nucleic acid synthesis, which are crucial for bacterial survival.

Metabolic pathway crucial for bacteria, but not for humans. Antibiotics can disrupt this pathway.

Antibiotics disrupting the folic acid pathway by targeting dihydropteroate synthase.

Antibiotics that target dihydrofolate reductase, an enzyme in the folic acid pathway.