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DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN THAT CHANGED THE WORLD OF MEDICINE

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During World War ___ Fleming served as a captain in the Royal Medical Corps, working in the battlefield hospitals in France.

a)

World War 1

b)

World War 2

2.

Alexander Fleming, a young bacteriologist, was investigating a type of bacteria in his laboratory in St. _____'s Hospital

a)

Maary

b)

Mary

c)

Mery

d)

Merry

3.

He left _____ dishes of bacterial culture open carelessly.

a)

Pettri

b)

Preti

c)

Petri

4.

Fleming saw a _____-_____ fungus ring

a)

Pink-Purple

b)

Blue-Purple

c)

Blue-Green

d)

Red-Blue

5.

Fleming put the blue-green fungus in a dish so that he could watch it __

a)

Walk

b)

Run

c)

Grow

6.

He found that the liquid extract from the blue-green fungus killed most of the dangerous type of-

(a)  

7.

Fleming identified the blue-green fungus as

(a)  

8.

Who examined the substances capable of fighting bacteria

a)

Dr. Howard Walter Florey

b)

Dr. Howard Watter Florey

c)

Dr. Ernist Boris Chain

d)

Dr. Ernst Boris Chain

9.

Dr. Florey and Dr. Chain found a method to extract the penicillin from Penicillium which could be injected into the human body to cure (a)   diseases

10.

Dr. Alexander Fleming, Dr. Howard Walter Florey and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain was awarded the _________ in 1945 for the great dicovery of penicillin that changed the world of medicine.

a)

Grammy Award for medicine

b)

Nobel Prize for medicine