Antibiotic penicillin is obtained from _______.

🔑Key Points:
-Antibiotics influence and interfere with the fungus’ metabolic process and ultimately kill it.
-Penicillium notatum or P. chrysogenum (fungus) is used to produce the antibiotic penicillin. 

🔴Additional Information:

✏️Fungi:
-Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that include microorganisms such as yeasts, moulds, and mushrooms.
-These organisms are classified under kingdom fungi.
-The organisms found in Kingdom fungi contain a cell wall and are omnipresent.
-They are classified as heterotrophs among living organisms.
-Characteristics of Fungi
-Fungi are eukaryotic, non-vascular, non-motile, and heterotrophic organisms.
-They may be unicellular or filamentous.
-They reproduce by means of spores.
-Fungi exhibit the phenomenon of alternation of generation.
-Fungi lack chlorophyll and hence cannot perform photosynthesis.
-Fungi store their food in the form of starch.
-Biosynthesis of chitin occurs in fungi.
-The nuclei of the fungi are very small.
-The fungi have no embryonic stage. They develop from the spores.
-The mode of reproduction is sexual or asexual.
-Some fungi are parasitic and can infect the host.