Biology
Answer
Four applications of antibiotics:
- Antibiotics have a wide use in medicine to fight infections.
- Certain antibiotics are used as food preservatives, specially fresh meat and fish.
- Some antibiotics are used in treating animal feed to prevent internal infection.
- Some antibiotics are used for controlling plant pathogens.
Related Questions
Given below is a scheme of classifying immunity against human diseases. Fill up the types of immunity in the blanks 1-9
Choose the odd one out and write the category for the remaining terms.
(a) Carbolic acid, Formalin, Benzoic acid, Boric acid
(b) Mercurochrome, Cresol, Phenol, Bordeaux mixture
(c) ATP, DPT, BCG, TAB
(d) Saliva, Sweat, Skin, Tears
(e) Chloromycetin, Streptomyces, Streptomycin, Aureomycin
List the merits of local defence system.
Differentiate between Antiseptic and Antibiotic