Alexander Fleming question...? Hi there
I am doing some Biology on a man named Alexander Fleming and his discovery of penicillin.
I was just wandering
1. WHAT discovery he made with an explanation of what the discovery does?
2. How did they make their discovery?
3.What difference has this made to our lives today?
Please help me by giving you're answers in the numbers like I have done the questions.
pinkheart replied: "he's a scottish scientist and during an expertiment his flask got infected. fungi started to grow and he noticed there was a gap around the fungi and the stuff he was using (i dont remember everything just this) he realised this gap was actually something fighting of the infection and it was of coure an anti biotic called penicllin!! the anti botic is used in all sorts of medicine"
Hєηηaaηgєℓ450 replied: "Penicillin:
"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer," Fleming would later say, "But I guess that was exactly what I did." [2].
By 1928, Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but quite a careless lab technician; he often forgot cultures that he worked on, and his lab in general was usually in chaos. After returning from a long holiday, Fleming noticed that many of his culture dishes were contaminated with a fungus, and he threw the dishes in disinfectant. But subsequently, he had to show a visitor what he had been researching, and so he retrieved some of the submerged dishes that he would have otherwise discarded. He then noticed a zone around an invading fungus where the bacteria could not seem to grow. Fleming proceeded to isolate an extract from the mouldy bread, correctly identified it as being from the Penicillin genus, and therefore named the agent penicillin.
without penicillin - we may have never have produced antibiotics - such as penicillin..
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The discovery...? The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 was the result of...?
A. the ability to use newly developed DNA technology
B. the accidental contamination of an experiment by a mold
C. exhaustive work by Fleming over a period of many years
D. coordinated efforts by many scientist to develope antibiotics
Me replied: "b. 120%sure"
Alexander Fleming-PLEASE HELP? Please help me----
Why did he not follow up his discovery on penicillin?
Describe the discovery of penicillin giving 5 reasons why it was lucky?
Give two reasons why Fleming did not follow up his discovery?
and
Who was the most important- Fleming or Florey/Chain, why?
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