32 Questions
Who is considered the 'Father of Microbiology'?
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
What did the ancient Greeks attribute diseases to?
Bad air
Who was known as the 'Father of Western medicine'?
Hippocrates
Which Roman writer proposed the concept that unseen things can cause disease?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Who developed the first practical compound microscope?
Robert Hooke
What was the early understanding of the concept of immunity attributed to Thucydides?
Causes of contagious diseases
Who proposed the Spontaneous Generation Theory that living things came from non-living things?
John Needham
Who theorized and experimented that maggots did not arise from decaying meat, opposing the Spontaneous Generation Theory?
Francisco Redi
According to the Unified Cell Theory, what is the basic unit of life?
Cell
Who contributed the idea that all new cells arise from existing cells to the Unified Cell Theory?
Rudolf Virchow
Who led the Golden Age of Microbiology along with Robert Koch?
Louis Pasteur
Who is known as the "Father of Immunology" and developed a vaccine against smallpox?
Edward Jenner
Who is widely known as the "saviour of children" and developed diphtheria toxin?
Emily von Behring
Who isolated the typhoid bacillus?
George Gaffky
"Gram-staining technique" is associated with which microbiologist?
Christian Gram
"Bacillus Calmette Guerin" (BCG) is associated with which microbiologist?
Albert Calmette
Antony van Leeuwenhoek is considered the 'Father of ______'
Microbiology
Antony van Leeuwenhoek referred to microbes as 'Little ______'
Animalcules
Robert Hooke developed the first practical compound ______
microscope
Microbiology is the study of ______
microorganisms
Thucydides is considered the Father of Scientific history and had an early understanding of the concept of ______
immunity
Marcus Terentius Varro proposed the concept that things we cannot see can cause ______
disease
Louis Pasteur led the Golden Age of Microbiology along with ______
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and ______
rabies
Louis Pasteur introduced the process of ______ to preserve foods
pasteurization
Louis Pasteur is associated with the 'Germ Theory of ______'
Disease
Louis Pasteur is widely known as the 'Father of ______'
Immunology
Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and ______
rabies
Louis Pasteur developed the process of ______ to preserve foods
pasteurization
Louis Pasteur is associated with the 'Germ Theory of ______'
Disease
Louis Pasteur is widely known as the 'Father of ______'
Immunology
Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and ______
rabies
Test your knowledge of the historical development and early notions of disease, contagion, and containment in microbiology. Explore the study of microorganisms and the origins of microbiology from ancient civilizations to modern times.
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