Smash Notes
Are the Microbes Making Antibiotics
at 6:23
Answer
Not really. If a microbe were to produce an antibiotic, it would decimate their own environment. Instead of producing antibiotics, microbes are producing a protein called bacteriocin, which caseus pores in the bacteria, thus destroying it.
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- Science Rules! with Bill Nye
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- The Right Drug for the Right Bug
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