Question

Explain why antibiotics such as penicillin, kill bacteria and not viruses

Answer 1

Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because viruses have different structures and replicate in a different way than bacteria.

Answer 2

Antibiotics cannot kill virus.

Step-by-step explanation:

Viruses are different from bacteria.They have different ways of survival and reproduction.Viruses have a protective protein coat instead of cell wall.But many Antibiotics including penicillin work by attacking cell wall.

Thus bacteria can be attacked by antibiotics but viruses cannot.