Fundamentals of Microbiology: Historical Development Quiz
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Who is considered the 'Father of Microbiology'?

  • Hippocrates
  • Antony van Leeuwenhoek (correct)
  • Thucydides
  • Robert Hooke
  • What did the ancient Greeks attribute diseases to?

  • Microorganisms
  • Contaminated water
  • Bad air (correct)
  • Unhealthy diet
  • Who was known as the 'Father of Western medicine'?

  • Robert Hooke
  • Marcus Terentius Varro
  • Hippocrates (correct)
  • Thucydides
  • Which Roman writer proposed the concept that unseen things can cause disease?

    <p>Marcus Terentius Varro</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed the first practical compound microscope?

    <p>Robert Hooke</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the early understanding of the concept of immunity attributed to Thucydides?

    <p>Causes of contagious diseases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who proposed the Spontaneous Generation Theory that living things came from non-living things?

    <p>John Needham</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who theorized and experimented that maggots did not arise from decaying meat, opposing the Spontaneous Generation Theory?

    <p>Francisco Redi</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the Unified Cell Theory, what is the basic unit of life?

    <p>Cell</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who contributed the idea that all new cells arise from existing cells to the Unified Cell Theory?

    <p>Rudolf Virchow</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who led the Golden Age of Microbiology along with Robert Koch?

    <p>Louis Pasteur</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is known as the "Father of Immunology" and developed a vaccine against smallpox?

    <p>Edward Jenner</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is widely known as the "saviour of children" and developed diphtheria toxin?

    <p>Emily von Behring</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who isolated the typhoid bacillus?

    <p>George Gaffky</p> Signup and view all the answers

    "Gram-staining technique" is associated with which microbiologist?

    <p>Christian Gram</p> Signup and view all the answers

    "Bacillus Calmette Guerin" (BCG) is associated with which microbiologist?

    <p>Albert Calmette</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Antony van Leeuwenhoek is considered the 'Father of ______'

    <p>Microbiology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Antony van Leeuwenhoek referred to microbes as 'Little ______'

    <p>Animalcules</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Robert Hooke developed the first practical compound ______

    <p>microscope</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Microbiology is the study of ______

    <p>microorganisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Thucydides is considered the Father of Scientific history and had an early understanding of the concept of ______

    <p>immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Marcus Terentius Varro proposed the concept that things we cannot see can cause ______

    <p>disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur led the Golden Age of Microbiology along with ______

    <p>Robert Koch</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and ______

    <p>rabies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur introduced the process of ______ to preserve foods

    <p>pasteurization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur is associated with the 'Germ Theory of ______'

    <p>Disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur is widely known as the 'Father of ______'

    <p>Immunology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and ______

    <p>rabies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur developed the process of ______ to preserve foods

    <p>pasteurization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur is associated with the 'Germ Theory of ______'

    <p>Disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur is widely known as the 'Father of ______'

    <p>Immunology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, chicken pox, and ______

    <p>rabies</p> Signup and view all the answers

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