Multiple Choice
Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. Events in each plan are not in correct chronological order. For each plan, select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic was accidental.
____ By 1939, researchers had figured out how to get penicillin to kill bacteria inside the body, a discovery that would help many wounded soldiers in World War II.
____ In 1928, Fleming, who kept a messy laboratory, left a Petri dish contaminated with bacteria in his sink.
____ Studying the mold, he noticed that bacteria would not grow near it.
____ Although Fleming stopped studying penicillin after 1931, researchers at Oxford University continued his work.
____ The next day, he discovered that airborne spores had invaded the dish and grown a blue-green fungus, or mold.
____ He named the bacteria-inhibiting substance penicillin after the Penicillium notatum fungus that produced it.
A) 6, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4
B) 2, 1, 4, 3, 4, 6
C) 5, 6, 3, 1, 2, 4
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