alleryStart learning →Penicillin was discovered accidentally in 1928 by:
AFulton
BFleming
CFaraday
DFranklin
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Fleming
1. He returned from holiday to old staphylococcus plates.
2. A mould had killed the bacteria around it.
3. That scientist was Alexander Fleming.
_Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 14, Antimicrobial Drugs._
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