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What are antibiotics?Give example.

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Antibiotics:The chemical substances produced by micro organisms and inhibit the growth or destroy microoraganisms are called antibiotics.
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The substance produced totally or partly by chemical synthesis which in low concentration inhibits the growth (or) destroy microorganism by intervening in their metabolic process are called antibiotics.E.g:Penicillin,Chloramphenicol etc.
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