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STAGE 4
SKWIRK Brainiacs!
Unit
Topic
Chapter
Science
1. History of Science
3. Science and the Future
1. Science and Human Health
PENECILLIN - The Greatest Accident
Antibiotics are a very important part of medicine today. Previously you would have read a
bit about it in the SKWIRK online content, specifically Penicillin. Now we will learn a bit
more about how by an amazing accident penicillin was discovered.
Instructions: Read through the following passage and fill in the cloze passage and answer
the questions below. Have a Go!
mould
return
nasal mucus
scientist
harmful
infection fighting
diseases
contaminated
synthetically
recognized
medicine
antibacterial
Penicillin is possibly the world most well known ___________. It was the first
antibiotic (a substance which stops the growth of ___________ bacteria) and how it
was discovered was quite a stroke of luck.
In 1928 a young Scottish ___________ by the name of Alexander Fleming was doing
some research in to his own nasal mucus. Fleming thought that ________ _________
might have some antibacterial effect; in his research he accidentally left a culture
plate (a dish scientists use to grow bacteria) out with some Stapylococus bacteria
on it while he went on a holiday for two weeks. On his ___________ he found that the
plate apart for being cover is bacteria had also grown a large green/yellow
_________, but in a circle around the mould there were no bacteria.
Unknown to Fleming, a spore of Penicillin notatum had __________________ his culture
plate. Seeing that the mould had stopped the bacteria growing around it Fleming
quickly realized that the mould must have some ________________ quality. After more
tests Fleming deduced that the moulds active ingredient, which was name
Penicillin, was a strong ___________ __________ properties.
Today Penicillin is created ________________ by pharmaceutical companies but is still
_____________ at the world’s most life saving drug that enabled medicine to be
become what it is today. It was and is used to treat such ____________ as: tonsillitis,
gangrene, meningitis, tuberculosis and many more
Keywords: antibiotic, Penicillin, bacteria, mould, antibacterial.
© 2010-2011 SKWIRK / Red Apple Education Pty Ltd
SKWIRK Brainiacs!
STAGE 4
Science
QUESTIONS:
When was the discovery made?
What does antibacterial mean?
What is a culture plate?
What was the scientific name of the mould?
What did Fleming notice that made him realize the special properties of the
mould?
What does antibiotic mean?
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