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Famous Personalities and Discoveries

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Famous Personalities and Discoveries Questions

Multiple choice botany heredity: from parents to offsprings experiments of mendel mendel's law of inheritance works of mendel

Law of inheritance was proposed by _______________

  1. Charles Darwin

  2. Robert Hooke

  3. Newton

  4. Gregor Mendel
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Law of inheritance was proposed by Gregor Mendel and was known as Mendels law of inheritance. He was the first to introduce that characteristic of parents can be in cooperated in the offsprings of the next generation. Therefore, (d) is the correct answer.

Multiple choice botany heredity: from parents to offsprings experiments of mendel mendel's law of inheritance works of mendel

Principles or laws of inheritance were enunciated by

  1. Mendel

  2. Morgan

  3. Bateson

  4. Punnet
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Gregor Johann Mendel, an Austrian Monk. He discovered the principles of heredity through the experiments on the pea plant. Mendel conducted hybridization experiments on garden peas for seven years and proposed the laws of inheritance in living organisms. They are Law of dominance, Law of segregation, Law of Independent assortment. He is regarded as Father of Genetics.

So, the correct option is ‘Mendel’,

Multiple choice economics ancient indian economic concepts goods, wealth and welfare major definitions of economics wealth, capital and money

Who published "The Nature and causes of wealth of Nations"?

  1. Adam Smith

  2. A.C. Pigou

  3. J.B. Say

  4. Alfred Marshal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Adam Smith was a Scottish economist who published the book " The Nature and causes of wealth of Nations" where he explicitly focused on economics as a study of creation of wealth and henceforth its distribution. 

Multiple choice zoology origin of life and organic evolution neo darwinism mechanism of evolution other theories of evolution

Which of the following is father of evolutionary concepts?

  1. George cuvier

  2. Buffon

  3. Charles Darwin

  4. Lamarck
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Darwin, in the fourth edition of his 'On the Origin of Species', wrote that the first author who in modern times has treated in a scientific spirit was Buffon a significant reference from the man known as the father of evolutionary theory. Buffon was known to have changed his views often during the course of his life and this is possibly why he is rarely referred to in the history of evolutionary thought. However, he is lauded by modern evolutionists as having posed significant questions about the development of life on Earth. Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice zoology origin of life and organic evolution neo darwinism mechanism of evolution other theories of evolution

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
Which of the following did not support the theory of evolution ?

  1. Darwin

  2. Cuvier

  3. Lamarck

  4. Hugo de Vries
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

According to Curvier, the Earth went through sudden changes, each of which could wipe out a number of species.  The causes may include asteroids, volcanoes, or relatively fast changes in sea level. These extinctions mark some of the great transitions in life when new groups of species got the opportunity to take over the niches of old ones.

so correct option is B, Cuvier.

Multiple choice social studies from stone to metal progress in history prehistoric age indus valley civilization

Who among the following Propounded the theory of the "Survival of the Fittest"?

  1. Charles Darwin

  2. Adolf Hitler

  3. Isaac Newton

  4. Herbert Spencer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Herbert Spencer first used the phrase – after reading Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" – in his Principles of Biology of 1864 in which he drew parallels between his economic theories and Darwin's biological, evolutionary ones, writing, "This survival of the fittest".


Multiple choice history what is history? historiography in the west historiography: development in the west historiography: indian tradition

He was known as the father of history writing __________.

  1. Thucidudes

  2. Plutarch

  3. Herodotus

  4. Democritis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Herodotus was known as the father of history because he was the first historian known to collect all the sources and materials systematically, also tested their accuracy to give a proper explanation.

Multiple choice history modern age in europe: the renaissance renaissance renaissance europe in transition india's contemporary economic condition reformation and enlightenment in europe reformation in europe

The telescope was invented by.

  1. Galileo

  2. Newton

  3. Francis Bacon

  4. Copernicus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Galileo invented the telescope. When he supported the theory of Copernicus, he was declared as a heretic. His books were burnt and he was imprisoned. 

Multiple choice history modern age in europe: the renaissance renaissance renaissance europe in transition india's contemporary economic condition reformation and enlightenment in europe reformation in europe

I can readily imagine, Holy Father, that as soon as some people hear that in this volume, which I have written about the revolutions of the spheres of the universe. I ascribe certain motions to the terrestrial globe, they will shout that I must be immediately repudiated together with this belief.... Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. Those who know that the consensus on many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heaven as its center would I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. Therefore I debated with myself for a long time whether to publish the volume which I wrote
The passage was likely written by _______.

  1. Andreas Vesalius

  2. Robert Boyle

  3. Galileo Galilei

  4. Nicholas Copernicus

  5. Issac Newton
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus is known for his heliocentric theory which places the sun as the center of the universe with planets revolving around it. His theory provided an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric theory which had the earth as the center and had been widely accepted since ancient times. Although he faced criticisms for his findings during his lifetime, later scientists built on the foundation laid by him.