Question

Give the scientific name of the source organism from which the first antibiotic was produced. [Foreign 2014]

Answer 1

Answer:

Penicillium chrysogenum (earlier known as Penicillium notatum) is the scientific name of source organism from which the first antibiotics, penicillin was produced. The name Penicillium comes from the resemblance of the conidiophore of the fungus to a paintbrush-- penicillus is the Latin word for paintbrush.