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Your expirment results indicate that antibiotics such as tetracycline, steptomycin,chloramphenicol have abroad spectrum of activity agaisnt prokaryotic cells. why do these antibiotic lack inhibitory activity agaisnt eukaryotic cells such asfungi?

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Your experimental results indicate that antibiotics such as tetracycline, streptomycin, and chloramphenicol, have a broad spectrum of activity against prokaryotic cells. Why do these antibiotics lack inhibitory activity against eukaryotic cells such as fungi?

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Because eukaryotic cell are more complex structure with good defensive adaptation against those antibiotics

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