Multiple choice general knowledge

Which inventor discovered penicillin?

  1. Benjamin Franklin

  2. Francis Crick

  3. Alexander Fleming

  4. Louis Pasteur
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Explanation

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 at St. Mary's Hospital in London when he noticed mold growing on a petri dish that killed bacteria. Benjamin Franklin, Francis Crick (co-discoverer of DNA structure), and Louis Pasteur (pasteurization) did not discover penicillin.

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