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

Antibiotics cannot kill virus.

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.

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