Question 9
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because
(a) viruses make use of the host machinery
(b) viruses are on the border line of living and non-living
(c) viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
(d) viruses have a protein coat
Question 9
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because
(a) viruses make use of the host machinery
(b) viruses are on the border line of living and non-living
(c) viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
(d) viruses have a protein coat
(c) viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial because viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own.
Virus are considered to be in the twilight zone. They are neither living nor non-living. Besides that, viruses do not have any metabolism. This results in tracing and following of the metabolic trail by the antibiotics.
Hence, anti-bacterial drugs have been developed to tackle bacterial infections, but anti-viral drugs are yet to be manufactured for the same reason as they do not leave any metabolic trail.
(c) viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial because viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own.
Virus are considered to be in the twilight zone. They are neither living nor non-living. Besides that, viruses do not have any metabolism. This results in tracing and following of the metabolic trail by the antibiotics.
Hence, anti-bacterial drugs have been developed to tackle bacterial infections, but anti-viral drugs are yet to be manufactured for the same reason as they do not leave any metabolic trail.
