NEET Chemistry: Drugs questions with solutions

Q1. Antimicrobial drugs that are derived from the natural processes of some microorganisms and that can inhibit or destroy other microorganisms, are specifically known as:

1. synthetic drugs
2. chemotherapeutic drugs
3. antibiotics
4. prophylactic drugs

Answer: antibiotics

Antibiotics are antimicrobial substances produced by microorganisms that inhibit or destroy other microorganisms. The other choices are broader or unrelated categories, not the specific natural microbial products described.