Question

Penicillin is got from an
A. Alga
B. Bacterium
C. Fungus
D. Dinoflagellate

Answer 1

Hint: Penicillin is a group of antibiotics that were very much effective in previous medication, against many bacterial infections caused by staphylococci, streptococci, etc. Sometimes in some cases penicillin is allergic. But mostly it can be used to treat bacterial infections.

Complete answer:
Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 during his experiments on bacterial cultures. He observed fungal contamination in the bacterial culture and recreated the same experiment to confirm the same. He observed that the presence of fungal contamination causes death of bacteria that means it has antibacterial properties.
First time when they conclude this result, they extracted this penicillin from Penicillium notatum, Penicillium rubrum and Penicillium chrysogenum. After the successful application in medication of the penicillin large scale production was started with the process fermentation with the help of fungus.
Chemical structure of the penicillin was given by X-ray crystallography. Penicillin is a broad-spectrum drug which means we can use this drug to treat different types of bacterial infections.
Thus, we can conclude that penicillin can be given to different bacterial infections including gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Penicillin can be given through intravenous or intramuscular injections or via oral intake.
And penicillin can be extracted from different species of fungus.

Thus, option ‘C’ is the correct answer.

Note: Many strains of bacterial communities develop resistance to antibiotics due to mutations and small life cycles. Thus, every time we take antibiotics doctors prescribe higher concentrations for that antibiotic due to chances of development of resistance.