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Which one of the following population interactions is widely used in medical science for the production of antibiotics?
Explanation
Antibiotic production is amensalism: one harmed, the other unaffected.
Detailed Solution
Amensalism/antibiosis (0, –).
Antibiotics are chemicals secreted by one microbial group (e.g. $Penicillium$) which harm other microbes (e.g. $Staphylococcus$).
It has no effect on $Penicillium$, the organism which produces it.
