Antibiotics that inhibit translation are useful because:
A) the translational machinery of eukaryotes is sufficiently different to that of bacteria.
B) microorganisms can develop resistance to other antibiotics.
C) antibiotic resistance genes are often carried on plasmids rather than the bacterial chromosome.
D) different antibiotics can inhibit different steps of translation.
E) they do not cross the cell membrane in higher animals.

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The translational machinery of eukaryotes is sufficiently different from that of bacteria, allowing antibiotics to target bacterial translation without affecting eukaryotic cells.

Antibiotics That Inhibit Translation Are Useful Because