Can you make penicillin

Answer 1

Penicillin - Penicillium chrysogenun is a bread mold.

'The unprocessed form of penicillin comes from the yellow juice extracted from the blue - green mold on bread'

Answer 2

penicillin is the safest antibiotic till now.it was a miracle that we got more safer drugs before the toxic one.

moreover it is used for gram positive infection above the abdomen before taking intra dermal injection it's scratch test is done to insure its acute skin reaction

To kill bacteria that cause disease ----- Here to help all future nova net/gradpoint users

Answer 3

Scientists of the early 1800s first classified bacteria. In 1829 they established the name Bacterium as their genus (a grouping of species with common origins). Bacteriology was an experimental science that emerged slowly until a major breakthrough occurred in 1928 that led to the development of penicillin. Scottish doctor Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955; winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in medicine with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain) was growing colorful patches of bacteria in covered dishes in his crowded St. Mary's Hospital Medical School laboratory. He noticed that a green mold had gotten into one of the dishes. Fleming knew that mold spores traveled through the air and could easily land and grow in any dish left uncovered. In this particular dish the bacteria closest to the green mold seemed to have disappeared or dissolved. Fleming examined the mold carefully and photographed it. An associate identified the growth as Penicillium notatum.

Curious about how the bacteria in this dish were killed, Fleming took the greenish "fluff in the dish and made a mixture that his laboratory workers called "mold juice." Fleming named the juice "penicillin" and gave it to some laboratory mice. He found that the penicillin killed only the harmful bacteria and not the healthy cells in the mice. This made Fleming's "mold juice" safer than any other known bacteria-killing substances. It was an incredible discovery. If this mold mixture could be made into a drug, then someone with an infection could be cured of disease without being harmed by the cure.Unfortunately, Fleming ran into difficulties turning penicillin into a drug because he was unable to purify and concentrate the substance.

Answer 4

1. 1

   Set up a penicillin culture by leaving a slice of bread at room temperature. Wait and observe until a greenish mold forms.

2. 2

   Preheat oven to 315 degrees Fahrenheit. Sterilize the flask by putting it in the oven for one hour. Clean the glass bottles thoroughly. Store in a refrigerator for up to 10 days if not using immediately.

3. 3

   Cut the molded bread into tiny pieces. Insert them into the flask. Place a flask in a dark area and let it sit at room temperature for five days.

4. 4

   Add liquid lab ingredients to 16.9 ounces of cold water. The lab ingredients should be dissolved in the order listed. Add cold water until the total amount of liquid reaches one liter. Adjust the pH with hydrochloric acid until it is between 5.1 and 5.4.

5. 5

   Add liquid to glass bottles. Make sure there is the right amount of liquid in a bottle by placing it on its side. The bottle plug should not come in contact with the liquid.

6. 6

   Add 1 tablespoon of bread spores. Lay bottles on their side.

7. 7

   Leave the bottles on their sides for one week. Keep them at room temperature. Do not disturb the bottles. If penicillin propagation was successful, it will be present in the liquid. Refrigerate right away for further classroom use

Answer 5

Yes but don't try it.