Names

Question 1

Aristotle:

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Coined spontaneous generation, thought mice grew from hay

Question 2

Virgil:

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believed bees grew from honey & flies grew from meat

Question 3

The Romans

Answer 3

magnifying lens called flea glasses

Question 4

Janssen:

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invented first compound microscope

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Galileo:

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improved microscope and telescope

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Leeuwenhoek:

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improved simple microscope (270x), first to describe microbes

Question 7

Robert Hooke

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looked at cork and coined term Cell

Question 8

Redi:

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believer in biogenesis, maggots in meat caused by flies laying eggs, proved it by covering jars of meat and no maggots grew

Question 9

Needham

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tried to prove spontaneous generation by covering nutrient broth in flasks but the cork was not sterile

Question 10

Pasteur:

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believed microorganisms are present in the air, designed S shaped flask to prove spontaneous generation theory false, discovered sheep vaccine for Anthrax, chick cholera, rabies

Question 11

Jenner:

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discovered first small pox vaccine

Question 12

Rudolf Virchow

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responsible for Cell Theory

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Agostino Bassi:

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discovered silkworm disease is caused by a fungus

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Joseph Lister:

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invented carbolic spray to disinfect, invented Listerine

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Semmelwise:

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discovered puerperal fever could be cut by washing hands in obstetrical clinics

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Paul Ehrlich:

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made first antibiotic for syphilis

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Von Behring:

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invented diphtheria antitoxin

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Ronald Ross:

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discovered mosquitoes transmit malaria

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Metchnikoff:

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discovered white blood cells and phagocytosis, began the field of immunology

Question 20

Alexander Fleming:

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made first antibiotic in 1928

Question 21

Chain and Florey:

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purified penicillin

Question 22

Rebecca Lancefield:

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invented testing for streptococcus

Question 23

Frederick Griffith

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discovered DNA

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Watson and Crick:

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detailed the structure of human DNA

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Jacob and Monod:

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discovered role of mRNA in protein synthesis

Question 26

Delbruck and Hershey:

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discovered genetic structure of viruses

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Tonegawa:

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performed landmark series of experiments regarding antibody genetics

Question 28

Prusiner:

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discovered prions