A research scientist is trying to design a new antibiotic that will kill bacteria but not harm human host cells. What part of bacteria would serve as an ideal target to allow for this kind of selectivity?

the answer is

c. parental

an organism's phenotype is the  form of a trait  that it  displays. for  flowercolor, a pea  plant  can  display  a phenotype of purple or white flowers. an organism's  genotype  is the alleles of a gene it contains. based on his data, mendel concluded that a phenotype can be  determined  by more than one  genotype.