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What cells produce penicillin?

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Penicillin is a drug. But som cells produce pencillinas which can, so to speak, neutralize the penicillin. If you don't know what penicillin is you really should go back to elementary school.

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How does penicillin help us to stay healthy?

Because Fungi class Penicillium produce antibiotic called penicillin that kill bacteria cells. Penicillin are very helpful in treating bacterial diseases and infections. Soon other antibiotic were developed.


How do we get bad bacteria out of our bodies?

Our body has cells called white blood cells that attack and destroy the bacteria. There are B cells which produce antibodys, which marks the harmful bacteria for the white blood cell. There are also many types of antibiotics which help, for example, penicillin. Penicillin enters the cell and prevents it from forming a cell wall, causing it to burst.


Certain bacteria produce a chemical that makes them resistant to penicillin since these bacteria reproduce asexually they usually produce offspring that?

survive exposure to penicillin


Explain the effect of penicillin on prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?

penicillin destroys the cell wall on prokaryotic cells no effects on animal cells since they don't have a cell wall but might have an effect on plant cells


What molds produce substances that kill bacteria?

The answer is penicillin


What is Alexander Flemming credited with?

Sir Alexander Fleming was a scientist and he named the mold


Why was Norman heatley so important?

He was part of a group that was able to Mass produce Penicillin. He gave many ideas that resulted in the group being able to mass produce the penicillin and purify it. So basically with out Norman, there would be no Penicillin and many people dead.


Who discovered the effect of penicillin on living cells?

Alfred nobel


What do parietal cells and chief cells produce together?

Parietal cells produce cover cells and chief cells produce micro and megaspores


What cells are most likely damaged by penicillin?

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Why does penicillin kill only actively multipling cells and lysozyme will kill cells in any stage of growth?

Penicillin inhibits transpeptidase, and enzyme that is necessary for bacterial cell wall synthesis. If a cell is not actively multiplying, then no cell wall synthesis is occurring and, therefore, penicillin does not inhibit the bacteria.