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Famous Personalities and Discoveries

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Famous Personalities and Discoveries Questions

Multiple choice evs let's plant trees green revolution in india crop revolutions green revolution

Father of green revolution at international level is___________

  1. Norman E. Borlaug

  2. M. S. Swaminathan

  3. Haberlandt

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

  • Norman E. Borlaug developed successive generations of wheat crops with qualities such as disease resistance, better adaptations to grow in areas with temperature variations and high yielding capacity. 
  • These new wheat varieties along with improved crop management techniques revolutionized agricultural production in Mexico during the 1940s and 1950s. 
  • It also influenced agricultural practices in Asia and Latin America leading to the Green Revolution.

Thus the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice work, life and leisure work, life and leisure during industrial revolution colonialism and urban change history

Who was the first to develop the idea of Garden City?

  1. Ebenezer Howard

  2. Raymond Unwin

  3. Barry Parker

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

The principle of the Garden City was developed by architect and planner Ebenezer Howard to solve the problem of the growing congestion and pollution of the city of London. The Garden City was a pleasant space full of plants and trees, where people would both work and live.

Multiple choice zoology immunity and blood groups innate and acquired immunity body fluids and immune responses immunity and immune system

Who among the following is recognised as the father of immunology?

  1. Edward Jenner

  2. Louis Pasteur

  3. Robert Koch

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

Edward Jenner is known as father of immunology due to his discovery of famous small pox vaccine which was also the first successful vaccine to be developed and helped in the eradication of disease completely. 

Louis Pasteur is considered as progenitor of modern immunology due to his studies on germ theory of disease. 
Robert Koch is the founder of modern bacteriology and played important role in identifying the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax.
Ferdinand Kohn is the founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

Multiple choice physics science in daily life introduction to science contribution of physics in technology and society physics in relation to other sciences

The first husband-wife team to get the Nobel Prize for Physics was.

  1. Frederick Joliot-Irene Joliot-Curie

  2. Pierre Curie-Marie Curie

  3. Carl Cori-Gerty Cori

  4. Gunnar Myrdal-Alva Myrdal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The first husband - wife to get the Nobel prize for Physics was PIERRE-CURIE and MARIE CURIE in $1903$ and they shared prize with Antonie Henri Becquerel for their joint research.

Multiple choice

Galileo was an Italian astronomer who

  1. Developed the telescope

  2. Discovered four satellites of Jupiter

  3. Discovered that the movement of pendulum

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Galileo made significant contributions to all these areas: he improved the telescope, discovered the moons of Jupiter, and studied pendulums.

Multiple choice

Who was Darwin?

  1. an english naturalist and geologist

  2. unkown

  3. he was a philosopher

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

Charles Darwin was a British naturalist and geologist best known for his contributions to the science of evolution through natural selection.

Multiple choice physics dynamics - explaining motion concept of inertia galileo's law and inertia mass and inertia

The term inertia was first used by

  1. Newton

  2. Galileo

  3. Aristotle

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

Galileo, a premier scientist in the seventeenth century, developed the concept of inertia. Galileo reasoned that moving objects eventually stop because of a force called friction. First thing it was discovered and not invented. It was discovered and stated and proved by Sir Isaac Newton.

Hence,
option $B$ is correct answer.

Multiple choice botany biotechnology: general introduction microbiology: organisms in industry biotechnology commercial applications of biotechnology

Who is the father of genetic engineering?

  1. Steward Linn

  2. Stanley Cohen

  3. Paul Berg

  4. Kary Mullis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
In 1972, genetic engineering was started by Paul Berg. He was able to introduce a gene of the SV-40 virus into a bacterium with the help of lambda phage. Berg is often considered as "Father of genetic engineering". He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1980.
S0, the correct answer is 'Paul Berg'.
Multiple choice evs let's plant trees green revolution in india crop revolutions green revolution

Who is the father of Green revolution?

  1. Johannes Kepler

  2. Norman Borlaug

  3. Edwin Hubble

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

Norman Borlaug is widely recognized as the father of the Green Revolution for his work in developing high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. His efforts significantly increased agricultural production in developing nations.

Multiple choice organisation of commerce and management structure of business e-tailing e-advertising, e-marketing and e-security e-commerce and mobile commerce

Who is called the 'father of email' and is credited with its invention?

  1. Aristotle

  2. Tomlinson

  3. Merriam

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was a pioneering American Computer Programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system. He is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email.

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification life introduction to plant kingdom classification of organisms

Who laid the foundation of palaeontology?

  1. Linnaeus

  2. Aristotle

  3. Cuvier

  4. Lamarck
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Paleontology is the study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments.
The foundation of paleontology was laid by George Cuvier by his work on comparative anatomy.
So, the correct answer is 'Cuvier'.