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Mention if the following statements are true (T) or False (F).

(f) Alexander Fleming coined the term "antibiotic" for substances like penicillin.

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Answer: False.

The term antibiotic was coined by Selman Waksman in $1942$ .

However, penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered much earlier in $1929$ by Alexander Fleming.

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