The antibiotic trimethoprim works by inhibiting the synthesis of dtmp by inhibiting an enzyme that produces tetrahydrofolate, a molecule that is used by the enzyme thymidylate synthetase (thya) to donate a methyl group to dump during dtmp synthesis. indicate if the following statement is true or false. bacteria that cannot produce thymidine may also be resistant to trimethoprim.
a. true
b. false