FORESTRY
PLANT AND WOOD ANATOMY
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Question
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Can be used as medicine, like penicillin
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Can kill farmer’s crops
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Provide the oxygen we breathe through photosynthesis
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Use excess carbon dioxide in the air through respiration
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many common medicines are produced using fungi. Some fungi naturally produce antibiotics to kill or stop the growth of bacteria. He noticed that no bacteria had grown in the areas around the fungal colonies. Antibiotics produced by the fungus had stopped the bacteria from growing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fungi naturally produce antibiotics to kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria, limiting their competition in the natural environment. Important antibiotics, such as penicillin and the cephalosporins, can be isolated from fungi.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the fungi most frequently isolated from fermented and cured meat products such as Penicillium chrysogenum and Penicillium nalgiovense are known penicillin producers; the latter has been shown to be able to produce penicillin when growing on the surface of meat products and secrete it to the medium.