Question

The first antibiotic called penicillin was extracted from:
A. a bacterium
B. a protozoan
C. a fungus
D. an alga

Answer 1

Answer:

a)A bacterium

Explanation:

As Alexander flemming discovered the first antibiotic penicillin. Antibiotics are chemicals which kill or stop the growth the disease causing microbes

Answer 2

C. a fungus

Explanation:

Penicillin was discovered in London in September of 1928. As the story goes, Dr. Alexander Fleming, the bacteriologist on duty at St. Mary's Hospital, returned from a summer vacation in Scotland to find a messy lab bench and a good deal more. A green mold called Pennicilium notatum had contaminated Petri dishes in his lab. The first name for penicillin was mould juice. Penicillin was derived from Penicillium fungi.

Option C is the answer.