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olganol [36]
3 years ago
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It was discovered by Alexander Fleming in the 1920's that Penicillium notatum produced a substance, know as penicillin, which ha

d antibiotic properties. Many would consider this to be one of the greatest and most important medical discoveries of all time. Penicillium notatum is what type of organism?
Biology
1 answer:
kobusy [5.1K]3 years ago
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Answer:

a bacterium

Explanation:

<em>Penicillium nonatum is a type of </em><em>bacterium</em><em>.</em>

<u>Bacteria are prokaryotic, microscopic organisms that are capable of adopting different lifestyles based on their mode of nutrition. While some are capable of manufacturing their foods via photosynthesis/chemosynthesis, some are saprophytic in nature while others lives as parasites on living organisms.</u>

Those that lives as parasites are often capable of causing diseases and are therefore called pathogens.

Penicillium nonatum is capable of producing a substance that has the capacity to inhibit the growth of another bacteria. Substances that are capable of inhibiting or killing bacteria are generally known as antibiotics.

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