Question

Father of antibiotic is
A. Leeuwenhoek
B. Fleming
C. Waksman
D. Pasteur

Answer 1

Any substance that inhibits the growth and replication of a bacterium or kills it outright can be called antibiotic.

Complete Answer:
- Selman Abraham Waksman(1888-1973) born In the rural Ukrainian town of Novaya Priluka and its nearby villages were surrounded by a rich black soil that supported our agriculture life although Waksman did not do much farming as a child, instate chemistry of the fertile soil incited a curiosity in him that would eventually influence the direction of his future endeavors.
- In 1940, Waksman and H.Boyd Woodruff had devised a technique for identifying natural substances with antibacterial properties.
- The first two antibiotics Waksman Identified from Actinomyces antibioticus, Member of the actinomycetes family the microbe produce a substance actinomycin that had both bacteriostatic and bactericidal properties.
- Waksman followed a comprehensive program of screening actinomycetes for their ability to produce antibacterial. He identified more than 20 new natural inhibitory substances including streptomycin and neomycin, and proposed the new standard term antibiotic for this class of natural growth in habitats.
- Waksman's greatest owner came when He won the Nobel Prize in psychology or medicine in 1952 for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. This distinction earned him the title of father of antibiotics and gave him well deserved recognition for his philanthropy and contributions to science and medicine.
- Antibiotic technically means “against life”, but the way it's used today it means a drug or other compound that will kill certain species of microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, parasites and others.

Therefore, from the above explanation the correct option is (C) Waksman.

Note: Antibiotics kill bacteria effectively fighting bacterial infections only they do not work against viruses or viral infection and can eventually cause more harm than good.