Alexander Fleming's experiments on pea plants were the basis for our understanding of genetics.

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The Scottish physician and bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally contaminated a plate of bacteria with penicillium mold while working in his lab in 1928; the mold inhibited the growth of the bacteria and he named the mold "penicillin." Penicillin was the first antibiotic discovered and is still in use today.

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