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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries

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This hub provides questions related to great inventors and their scientific discoveries. It covers the inventors of the telephone, radio, and microchips, alongside Nobel Prize winners. These facts are crucial for the general awareness section of major competitive exams.

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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Albert Einstien

  2. Walt Disney

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Albert Einstein (often misspelled Einstien) said this about scientific thinking. He meant that while simplicity is good in science, oversimplification that loses essential complexity is wrong - don't make things simpler than they should be.

Multiple choice
  1. Albert Einstein

  2. Dr. Suess

  3. Walt Disney

  4. Aesop

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This is a well-known quote by Albert Einstein, emphasizing the creative power of the human mind over mere factual accumulation.

Multiple choice biology coordination in life processes ingestion of food mechanism of digestion

Alexis St. Martin is famous for

  1. His views on evolution

  2. Work on animal breeding

  3. Open stomach for experiments on digestion

  4. Being first person to study digestion

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • Alexis St. Martin was a Canadian voyageur known for his part in the study of digestion in humans.
  • St. Martin was shot with a musket at close range and had a near-fatal accident in 1822.
  • He was treated by an American Army physician William Beaumont.
  • His wound was not healed fully and also left an opening into his stomach.
  • Studies were conducted on St. Martin's stomach which led to helped to understand the structure of the stomach, different types of gastric juices and the processes of digestion and other activities in the stomach.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Open stomach for experiments on digestion'.
Multiple choice biology coordination in life processes ingestion of food mechanism of digestion

The scientist to study digestion for the first time was

  1. Beaumount

  2. Pavlov

  3. Guillemin

  4. Sach

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Beaumont recognized that he had in St. Martin an unusual opportunity to observe digestive processes. Dr. Beaumont began to perform experiments on digestion for the first time using the stomach of St. Martin. He is known as father of gastric physiology.

So, the correct option is 'William Beaumont'.

Multiple choice biology caskets of life the cell structure cytoplasm unicellular and multicellular organisms number and shape of cells

Select the correct option:Who gave the lamellar or sandwich model of cell membrane?

  1. Singer and Nicolson

  2. Danielli and Davson

  3. J. Robertson

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In $1935$, Danielli and Davson proposed that cell membrane is made of a double layer of phospholipid molecules sandwiched between two single layers of proteins. The three layers are held together by electrostatic forces while phospholipid layers are kept adhered by vander Waal's forces.

So, the correct answwer is 'Danielli and Davson'.

Multiple choice biology meaning of life chemical organization in living beings lipids proteins and their structure

The term lipid was given by

  1. Sutherland

  2. Bloor

  3. Altmann

  4. Berzelius

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Lipids are fatty acids esters of alcohols. They are insoluble in water but get dissolved in an inorganic solvent like acetone, chloroform ether etc. lipid was termed by Bloor in 1943. Altman discovered mitochondria. Berzelius discovered chemical elements selenium, throium, cerium and silicon and Sutherland discovers the epinephrine. Thus, the correct option is B.

Multiple choice botany simple nutrients into cells mineral transport types of transport translocation of organic solutes

A scientist associated with work on translocation is

  1. Arnon

  2. Calvin

  3. Dixon

  4. Munch

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'Mass flow hypothesis' or 'Pressure flow hypothesis' to explain translocation was given by Munch, 1930. 

According to this theory organic substances move in the sieve tubes from the region of high osmotic concentration to the region of low osmotic concentration in a mass flow, due to occurrence of pressure gradient. This is the most widely accepted theory to explain translocation in plants.

Multiple choice botany water absorption and ascent of sap in plants active transport and passive transport types of plant transport atp

Nobel prize in 1991 for discovering the single ion channels in cell was awarded to

  1. Waston and Har gobind Khorana

  2. Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann

  3. Nirenberg and Kornberg

  4. Holley and Matthaei

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In 1991, the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology was given to Erwin Neher and Bert Sarkmann for the discovery of single ion channels in cells. They were able to develop a technique that registers very minute variations in electric currents that passes through a single ion channel. This new method helped them to watch the activity of a single molecule.  

Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice biology living organisms and their surroundings living organism living vs nonliving living vs non living

Classical growth experiments were performed by 

  1. Darwin and Lamarck

  2. Lamarck and Boysen-Jensen

  3. Boysen-Jensen and Darwin

  4. De Vries and Paul

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Classical growth experiments were conducted by Darwin, Boysen-Jensen paved path to refute ancient misconceptions on plant growth. Boysen and Jensen conducted some experiments, which provided more direct evidence that transmissible substance produced in the tip participates in the response. Charles Darwin explored the inductive nature and mechanistic connection between phototropism and gravitropism.

Multiple choice biology concept of life living organism living vs nonliving living vs non living

Classical experiments on growth were performed by ......................

  1. Lamarck and Boysen - Jennsen

  2. Boysen - Jennsen and Darwin

  3. Darwin and Lamarck

  4. De Vries and Paul

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Classical experiments on growth were performed by Boysen - Jennsen and Darwin. The existence of first plant growth hormone came from the work of Darwin. They found that bending movement of coleoptile of canary grass was due to exposure of tip to unilateral light. Boysen - Jennsen found that the tip produces a chemical which was later named auxin. Darwin's findings on plants have been published as a book in the name of 'The power of movements in plants.

Multiple choice biology concept of life living organism living vs nonliving living vs non living

Distribution of growth in a root by marking it at equal intervals with Indian ink was originally studied by ........................

  1. Wellensick

  2. Strasburger

  3. Went

  4. Nitsch

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Eduard Adolf Strasburger was a Polish - German professor who has one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century. He had contributed a lot towards the field of botany. He explained about the distribution of growth in a root by marking it at equal intervals with Indian ink.

Multiple choice thermo flask thermos flask heat energy transfers transfer of heat physics

Thermos flask was deviced by

  1. Fischer

  2. Joseph Lister

  3. Joseph Fourier

  4. Sir James Dewar

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Thermos flask is a special kind of bottle used for keeping the hot liquid hot and the cold liquid cool for a sufficiently long time. It was devised by sir James Dewar and do it is also known as Dewar Flask.

Multiple choice biology plant nutrition limiting factors factors affecting photosynthesis photosynthesis in higher plants
The law of limiting factors' was given by _______ in the year _______.
  1. Blackman, 1905

  2. Blackman, 1804

  3. Engelmann, 1909

  4. Warburg, 1920

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Blackman's (1905) law of limiting factors states that if a chemical process is affected by more than one factor, then its rate will be determined by the factor which is nearest to its minimal value; it is the factor which directly affects the process if its quantity is changed. 

So the correct option is A.