Is penicillin effective against bacteria?
Penicillin is produced by a fungus named as Penicillium notatum.
It was the first antibiotic that was discovered.
It was discovered by Alexander Fleming.
An an antibiotic is a chemical that kills other microorganisms.
Bacteria are the microscopic organisms that belong to kingdom Monera.
Fungi belong to kingdom fungi.
There are two types of bacteria -gram-positive and gram-negative.
Gram positive bacteria have peptidoglycan as the outermost layer of their cell wall.
Gram negative bacteria have peptidoglycan below the layer of lipid.
Penicillin is an antibiotic that inhibits bacterial cell wall formation.
It inhibits the transpeptidation reaction and blocks cross linking of the cell wall. It prevents crosslings formation between N acetyl muramic acid and N acetyl galactosamine.
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