Question

(i) Name the sweetening agents used in the preparation of sweets for a diabetic patient?
(ii) What are antibiotics? Give an example?
(iii) Give two example of macromolecules that are chosen as drug targets?

Answer 1

(i) Saccharin, sucralose

(ii) Antibiotics are the chemical substance produced wholly or partly by chemical synthesis, which in low concentrations, either kill or inhibit the growth of micro-organism by intervening in their metabolic processes. A few examples of antibiotics are chloramphenicol,ofloxacin, penicillin.

(iii) Biomolecules such as carbohydrates, protien, lipids, and nucleic acids are choosen as drug targets.