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A fungus used to make an antibiotic is Penicillium.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 8y agoThe name of the fungus is Penicillin Cillin.
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∙ 8y agoThat Would have To Be PENICILLIUM
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∙ 8y agoPenicillium
penicullim
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∙ 13y agopenicillum
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∙ 13y agopenicillin
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What is antibiotics produced by?
Antibiotics are chemicals that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and are used to treat bacterial infections. They are produced in nature by soil bacteria and fungi.
What chemical is produced by fungi that prevents bacteria from growing?
These substances are called fungicides.
Which viruses do antibiotics kill?
Antibiotics are the chemicals produced by microorganisms to inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. most of the antibiotics are produced by fungi. Very few are produces by bacteria. For example the antibiotics Monobactum, Bacitracin and Polymixin B are produced by bacteria. They almost all act against other bacteria and not viruses. ( Amphotericin B acts against fungi and is too toxic.) In fact you do not have good drugs against viruses and then you conveniently avoid to talk about it.
What is the substance produced by molds and bacteria which is of great importance to medicine?
Antibiotics, it was first dicovered in the from of penicillin as they come from the fungi penicillum.
Can antibiotics kill fungi?
no
Why are antibiotics made by fungi and bacteria?
Bacteria is represented as both fungi and antibiotics. Fungi produce antibiotics to compete and overpower the bacteria present in the dead matter that encloses them.
Why do fungi produce antibiotics that inhibit bacterial growth?
Fungi and bacteria are in direct competition with each other when it comes to decomposing dead matter. If a fungus would like to be the dominant decomposer; it will find a way to kill its neighbor bacteria.
Chemical produced by bacteria that limits the growth of other bacteria?
You want to talk about antibiotics. By definition it is the substance produced by microorganisms to inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. Most of such chemicals are produced by fungi. Only few like bacitracin are produced by bacteria.
What does fungi produce and doctors prescribe?
Antibiotics
How did the study of microbes enable us to develop antibiotics?
Some bacteria, most notably species in the genus Streptomyces and Actinomycetes produce antibiotics as secondary metabolites. Aside from bacteria, some fungi such as Penicillium produce antibiotics as well. Scientists were then able to purify the antibiotics produced from the microbes for clinical purposes.
What are antibiotics made of?
Antibiotics were once naturally occurring substances produced by an organism to inhibit the growth of another organism.But now most antibiotics are semisynthetic-modified chemically from original compounds found in nature, as is the case with beta-lactams (which include the penicillins, produced by fungi in the genus Penicillium, the cephalosporins, and the carbapenems).Some antibiotics are still produced and isolated from living organisms, such as the aminoglycosides, and others have been created through purely synthetic means: the sulfonamides, the quinolones, and the oxazolidinones.
How are organisms in the Fungi kingdom useful to humans?
fungi is very valuable as a source of vitamins and antibiotics
