CURRENT AFFAIRS - AUGUST 2020 QUIZ

DNA gyrase

Cross-linking of peptidoglycan

DNA polymerase

RNA polymerase

sideromycins

vancomycin

both (a) and (b)

bleomycins

Vancomycin

Ampicillin/sulbactam

Cephalothin

Piperacillin

pencillin-G

carbenicillin

methicillin

closacillin

Neothramycin

Anthramycin

Sibromycin

Erythromycin

kills all microorganisms

kills numerous types of microbes

kills all bacteria

kills both Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria

protozoan

gram positive bacterium

gram negative bacterium

yeast

Broth dilution test

Dilution susceptibility tests

All of these

Agar dilution test

all of these

Interfere with nuclear division by preventing the aggregation of microtubules needed for mitosis

Interfere with ergosterol biosynthesis and thus alter the structure of the cytoplasmic membrane as well as the function of several membrane-bound enzymes like those involved in nutrient transport and chitin synthesis

Interfere with normal nucleic acid synthesis

penicillin-G

carbenicillin

closacillin

ampicillin