- 1. In which year did Sir Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
A) 1956
B) 1943
C) 1928
D) 1901
- 2. Who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Alexander Fleming for the discovery of penicillin?
A) Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Florey
B) Gregor Mendel and Thomas Hunt Morgan
C) Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
D) Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
- 3. What is the primary mechanism of action of penicillin against bacteria?
A) Inhibition of cell wall synthesis
B) Disruption of cell membrane integrity
C) Inhibition of protein synthesis
D) Inhibition of DNA replication
- 4. Which World War significantly increased the demand for penicillin as an antibiotic?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War II
C) World War I
D) Korean War
- 5. Penicillin was the first commercially available ______?
A) Antiviral
B) Antibiotic
C) Antifungal
D) Antiparasitic
- 6. The discovery of penicillin laid the foundation for the development of what field of medicine?
A) Surgery
B) Homeopathy
C) Radiology
D) Antibiotics
- 7. What was the name of the patient who was successfully treated with penicillin by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain in 1941?
A) Albert Alexander
B) Sarah Smith
C) David Davis
D) Emily Evans
- 8. What effect did the discovery of penicillin have on the mortality rate of bacterial infections?
A) Eliminated it completely
B) Increased it
C) Significantly reduced it
D) Had no effect
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