History

Question 1

Known as the father of the microscope. Took scrapings of teeth and looked at them with a magnifying glass under the sun.

Answer 1

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 2

Proved biogenesis and disproved spontaneous generation using pasteurization. Came up with germ theory of disease.

Answer 2

Louis Pasteur

Question 3

One of the fathers of epidemiology. Invoked hand washing to decrease maternal death rate after childbirth.

Answer 3

Ignaz Semmelweiss

Question 4

Father if epidemiology. Determined that a water pump was the cause of a cholera outbreak in London. This was the first epidemiological study (surgeon).

Answer 4

John Snow

Question 5

Verification of germ theory of disease. He injected mice with an isolated culture. Upon infection he obtained a pure sample. The sick animals were isolated.

Answer 5

Robert Koch (Koch’s postulates)

Question 6

1st to dispute spontaneous generation. He used maggots in his experiment.

Answer 6

Francesco Redi

Question 7

What is cell theory?

Answer 7

Cells are the base structural, functional, and organizational united of organisms.

Question 8

Spontaneous generation

Answer 8

Life comes from non-life.

Question 9

Biogenesis

Answer 9

Life comes from pre-existing life

Question 10

Miasma

Answer 10

infectious diseases come from “bad air.”