The antibiotic tetracycline is used to treat infections caused by MRSA (methiciline resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Tetracycline is effective because it exploits the differences in ______ between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. mRNA structure tRNA structure ribosomal structure DNA structure RNA polymerase
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