What’s on the How Antibiotics Work poster
A 6-row table: Class · Targets.
Mechanism by class.
- Penicillins, cephalosporins — Cell wall synthesis
- Tetracyclines, macrolides — 70S ribosome — protein synthesis
- Aminoglycosides — 30S ribosomal subunit
- Fluoroquinolones — DNA gyrase
- Rifampicin — Bacterial RNA polymerase
- Sulfonamides — Folate synthesis
Bactericidal kills; bacteriostatic stops division and lets the immune system finish. The distinction matters in immunocompromised patients.
Questions about the How Antibiotics Work poster
- What’s on the How Antibiotics Work poster?
- A 6-row table: Class · Targets. Mechanism by class. Penicillins, cephalosporins — Cell wall synthesis; Tetracyclines, macrolides — 70S ribosome — protein synthesis; Aminoglycosides — 30S ribosomal subunit; Fluoroquinolones — DNA gyrase; Rifampicin — Bacterial RNA polymerase; Sulfonamides — Folate synthesis. Bactericidal kills; bacteriostatic stops division and lets the immune system finish. The distinction matters in immunocompromised patients.
- Who is the How Antibiotics Work poster for?
- How Antibiotics Work belongs to the Biology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning microbiology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the How Antibiotics Work poster?
- Every target is something bacteria have and human cells do not. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so How Antibiotics Work belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with How Antibiotics Work?
- Antibiotic Resistance, Aseptic Technique and Bacterial Growth sit alongside How Antibiotics Work in the Biology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Antibiotic ResistanceAseptic TechniqueBacterial Growth
- Is the How Antibiotics Work poster free to download and print?
- Yes. How Antibiotics Work downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Biology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the How Antibiotics Work poster print at?
- How Antibiotics Work is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of How Antibiotics Work loses nothing.Printing guide
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