Antibiotics can be effective only against a
A) bacterium.
B) prion.
C) viroid.
D) virus.

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Antibiotics are designed to target and kill bacteria or inhibit their growth. They are not effective against prions, viroids, or viruses, as these pathogens have different biological structures and replication mechanisms that do not respond to antibiotics. Prions are misfolded proteins that cause disease by inducing normal proteins to misfold, viroids are small infectious RNA particles that affect plants, and viruses require host cells to replicate, which antibiotics do not target.

Antibiotics Can Be Effective Only Against a