Aditive functor characterization. Aditive iff right/left exact.

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I need to prove this:

Let F be a functor between abelian categories. F is aditive iff is right exact or left exact.

I think that for <-- I'll need to use the characterization:

F between aditive categories is an aditive functor iff F preserves products (or coproducts).

So I'll need to prove that if F is right exact, then it preserves coproducts and if F is left exact, it preserves products, and then I could use this result, but I'm not sure about it.

Any help or idea to both sides of the proof is welcome, thanks in advance!