janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a n

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janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a nurse. He comes to your office and shows you an injury to his knee which he got by sliding into home base, scoring a game-winning run. His knee has a red, raw patch where the skin has been scraped off, and the area around the wound is swollen. Janus tells you that he washed his knee with soap and water to remove any germs and then put a bandage on it. janus ask you if there is something he can use to kill any bacteria in his wound without affecting any of his own body cells. you tell him that some antibiotics kill bacteria by targeting____, a compound unique to bacteria.

1) protein

2) flagella

3) nuclear membrane

4) peptidoglycan

5) chitin

Explanation / Answer

Janus ask you if there is something he can use to kill any bacteria in his wound without affecting any of his own body cells. you tell him that some antibiotics kill bacteria by targeting____, a compound unique to bacteria.

4) Peptidoglycan

Peptidoglycan is the major component of the bacterial cell wall. Some antibiotics can kill bacteria by targeting this.

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