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"Antibiotics are chemical substance produced from microbes".
a. What is the meaning of the term antibiotics?
b. Name the first antibiotic.
c. Who discovered antibiotics?

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a. Anti-against, bio-life (Against the life of pathogens)
b. Penicillin
c. Alexander Fleming .
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