Question

Name the following:

Name of an antibiotic derived from fungus.

Answer 1

Antibiotics:

1. Antibiotics are medicine that inhibits or stops the growth of microorganisms by destroying them.

Penicillin:

1. Penicillin is a group of antibiotics that is developed from the fungi Penicillium and was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928.
2. It is used to fight against bacterial infections that include meningitis, syphilis pneumonia, gonorrhea, and endocarditis.