Define the terms antibacterial andantibiotic and explain how these substances work.Provide several examples of products you have seen that claim to beantibacterial (hint: house hold cleaning agents).  Havingdefined these terms, consider how they could design anantibacterial product or antibiotic drug that would only killprokaryotic bacteria while leaving eukaryotic cells alone. The ideais for you to consider prokaryotic cell structures that aredifferent from eukaryotic structures and target them. Next, addresswhy we would be concerned with developing new antibacterials andnew antibiotics since we already have so many. This is anopportunity to begin a discussion related to the public healthconcern of antibiotic resistance.
