MCQ
First antibiotic was discovered in the year:
- A1928
- B1914
- C1980
- D1930
Explanation:
Antibiotic production is major industrial application of microbes. Penicillin (the first antibiotic discovered) was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, while working on Staphylococcus bacteria, that he observed growing in one of his unwashed petri cultures. However, its full potential as effective antibiotic was established much later by Ernest Chain and Howard Florey who got the noble prize in 1945 for this discovery.
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| Column $- I$ | Column $- II$ |
| $(a)$ Allergy | $(1)$ Malaria |
| $(b)$ Widal test | $(2)\; AIDS$ |
| $(c)\; ELISA$ test | $(3)$ Typhoid fever |
| $(d)$ Haemozoin | $(4)\; IgE$ antibodies |
| Column $- I$ | Column $- II$ |
| $(A)$ Gene therapy | $(1)$ Effort to fix functional gene |
| $(B)$ Humulin | $(2)$ A single-stranded $DNA$ or $RNA$ tagged with aradioactive molecule |
| $(C)$ Probe | $(3)$ Diagnostic test |
| $(D)$ ELISA | $(4)$ Diabetes |