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Penicillium (from Latin penicillus: paintbrush) is a genus of ascomycetous fungi. The fungi produces penicillin which is a molecule used as an antibiotic.
Penicillium was discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming's lab assistant when he left a window open overnight and had mold spores over his bacterial specimens in a petri dish. He nearly threw it away but when he examined it under a microscope he discovered that many bacteria in the petri dish were dying due to the fungi growing around them.
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∙ 13y ago
The scientific name for the penicillin fungus is Penicillium chrysogenum.
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∙ 13y agoPenicillium chrysogenum
The scientific name for penicillin (you omitted an "l") is penicillin, but it is derived from a species of mold, penicillium notatum.
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∙ 15y agoThe scientific name of penicillin is I DONT KNOW hahaha
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