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Investigating how different concentrations of a antibiotic effects the growth of a bacterium.  

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Investigating how different concentrations of a antibiotic effects the growth of a bacterium Hypothesis- for this investigation my hypothesis is that as the concentration of the names antibiotic increases the growth of the bacterium around it will decrease. Scientific explanation- in explaining the hypothesis that has just been made the scientific details will be divided into a number of different paragraphs. These being: o Antibiotics sites if affect o Antibiotics, how they work and what is resistance o The growth of bacteria o Penicillin ANTIBIOTICS First of all, antibiotics are drugs that are used to treat and to cure infections. The antibiotics are derived from living organisms, although others such as isoniazid used to treat tuberculosis are synthetic. Antibiotics are used and are as successful as they are as they interfere with some aspect of growth or metabolism of the organism. The different methods or areas of the interference are: DNA RNA Polymerase mRNA Antibiotics are strong...

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