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Who coined the term antibiotics ?

  • Woodruff

  • Darwin

  • Selman Waksman

  • A Fleming

Solution

C.

Selman Waksman

Alexander Fleming (1929) discovered first antibiotic penicillin from Penicillium notatum. Selman Waksman (1945) coined the term antibiotic, he got Nobel Prize. A Fleming is regarded as Father of Antibiotics.

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