Home Biology NEET Full Syllabus Mock Test 180 Questions New Syllabus Mock Test - 14 PCB Which of the following is incorrect about an…
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Published on: August 12, 2026

Which of the following is incorrect about antibiotics?

A
"Anti" means against and "bio" means life but with reference to humans, they are pro-life.
B
Antibiotics are substances produced by microbes that kill or inhibit other microbes.
C
Fleming first discovered antibiotic by observed a mould inhibiting Streptococcus in his culture plates.
D
Full potential of penicillin as an effective antibiotic was established much later by Ernest Chain and Howard Florey.

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C

Alexander Fleming while working on Staphylococci bacteria, once observed a mould growing in one of his unwashed culture plates around which Staphylococci could not grow.

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