Penicillin is an antibiotic drug that interferes with peptidoglycan synthesis in bacteria, eventually resulting in cell death. What effect would you predict if you applied penicillin to archaea

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Since penicillin interferes with peptidoglycan synthesis, it means that the drug will have no effects on archaea.

Archaea cell walls

The cell wall of archaea consists mostly of polysaccharides and glycoconjugates. In order words, the cell walls of archaea lack peptidoglycan.

Since penicillin kills bacteria by interfering with the synthesis of peptidoglycan, it simply means that the drug will have no effect on archaea, since they do not have peptidoglycan in their cell walls.

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