Question

Which of the following statements is true regarding infectious agents? Will give medal and fan.
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Answer 1

a. Infectious agents are too small to be seen without a microscope, and none can be classified as living.

Answer 2

b. All infectious agents are living because they are classified as microorganisms.

Answer 3

c. Of all infectious agents, only viruses can be considered living because they inject their DNA or RNA into host cells.

Answer 4

d. Viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics because they are not living organisms.

Answer 5

texaschic101?

Answer 6

ParthKohli?

Answer 7

@texaschic101 @ParthKohli

Answer 8

@Zale101 @IrishBoy123

Answer 9

@jabez177 @Daniellelovee

Answer 10

@staldk3

Answer 11

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Answer 12

Yes, let me see.

Answer 13

SEE WHAT?

Answer 14

Calm down. Let me understand the question...

Answer 15

Is it multiple choice?

Answer 16

Antibiotics are for bacterial infections.

Answer 17

Viruses are not usually considered living.

Answer 18

I would say a.

Answer 19

I agree to @staldk3 :)

Answer 20

Ai yai yai... No direct answers...

Answer 21

I would say D

Answer 22

"a. Infectious agents are too small to be seen without a microscope, and none can be classified as living."
This is WRONG because BACTERIA are considered to be living. So we know the major types of infectious agents are BACTERIA and VIRUSES. Out of these 2 only virus is considered as non living because it lacks some properties associated with living organisms. (one is that they lack a cell nucleus)

"b. All infectious agents are living because they are classified as microorganisms."
Is wrong because of the same reason, all of them aren't living. example virus.

"c. Of all infectious agents, only viruses can be considered living because they inject their DNA or RNA into host cells."
Of all of the infectious agents VIRUSES CANNOT BE CONSIDERED AS LIVING. Only BACTERIA is considered as LIVING.
So that's also wrong.


So the answer is D
"d. Viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics because they are not living organisms."
That's because viruses are inside the host cell, so if we want to destroy them then the host cell will also be destroyed. Since they aren't living they live inside the host cells.

Answer 23

Yeah it's D.

Answer 24

@rushwr That is not the reason antibiotics do not work for viruses. Viruses have a completely unique structure from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotes have a completely different genome structure as well as cell membrane and wall structure compared to Eukaryotes. Because there is a large difference in cell wall, many antibiotics target enzymes and chemicals involved in building bacterial (prokayotic) cell walls.

Now, since viruses do not have cell walls or membranes or other structures we find in both prokaryotes (bacteria) and eukaryotes (pants, animals, fungi, etc) the drugs used to treat bacterial infections, eukaryotic parasites or fungal infections, etc, are worthless when fighting viruses.