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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 properties of enzyme enzyme properties enzymes biomolecules: chemical constituents of living cells biology

Who discovered the coenzymes?

  1. James Sumner

  2. Fritz Lipmann

  3. Mayerhoff

  4. Eduard Buchner

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
  • Coenzymes are small organic molecules that can be loosely or tightly bound to an enzyme. 
  • Tightly bound coenzymes can be called as prosthetic groups. Coenzymes were discovered by Fritz Lipmann. 
  • His work on the coenzyme was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1953, for his discovery of coenzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism. 
    Hence, option B is the answer.
Multiple choice properties of enzyme enzyme properties enzymes biomolecules: chemical constituents of living cells biology

Biocatalysts were found accidently in Yeast extract by

  1. Sumner

  2. Kuhne

  3. Buchner

  4. Pasteur

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

Biocatalysts were found accidentally in yeast extract by Buchner in 1897. He prepared a yeast extract and added sugar solution to it. After sometime he noticed the alcohol formation in the extract which was a sign of fermentation which took in presence of enzyme. Later on, Sumner crystallized an enzyme known as urease and reported that all enzymes are protein.

So, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice properties of enzyme enzyme properties enzymes biomolecules: chemical constituents of living cells biology

Relationship between genes and enzymes was discovered by

  1. Waldeyer

  2. W. Johannsen

  3. Bridges

  4. Beadle and tatum

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

Sir Archibald Garrod proposed that one enzyme is encoded by one gene. This hypothesis called One gene One enzyme hypothesis, was experimentally proved by Beadle and Tatum by using bread mould Neurospora. Beadle and Tatum showed bread mould mutants that were unable to make specific amino acids. In each one, a mutation had disrupted an enzyme needed to build a certain amino acid. This was caused due to specific gene mutation.

Hence, the correct answer is 'Beadle and Tatum'

Multiple choice chemistry basic concepts of chemistry law of multiple proportion law of multiple proportions laws of chemical combination

The law of the multiple proportion was proposed by:

  1. Dalton

  2. Dulong

  3. Petit

  4. Lavoisier

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

The law of the multiple proportion was proposed by Dalton.
Law of multiple proportions, statement that when two elements combine with each other to form more than one compound, the weights of one element that combine with a fixed weight of the other are in a ratio of small whole numbers.

Multiple choice zoology endocrine system and chemical co-ordination parathyroid gland thyroid and parathyroid gland thyroid, parathyroid and thymus gland

Who discovered the parathyroid glands while dissecting a rhinoceros?

  1. Sir Richard Owen

  2. Galen

  3. Andreas Vesalius

  4. Anders Olaf Retzius

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

The parathyroid gland was first discovered in 1852 during the autopsy of an Indian rhinoceros by Sir Richard Owen.

So, the correct option is 'Sir Richard Owen'.

Multiple choice introduction to twentieth century and world war one the twentieth century and great war history

With which famous inventor did Ford work for before starting the Ford Motor Company?

  1. Andrew Carnegie

  2. Alexander Graham Bell

  3. J.P. Morgan

  4. Thomas Edison

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

Henry Ford is one of those rare entrepreneurs who revolutionized the way people live. Many historians of the American industry rank him as the most important inventor of the 20th century. His automobile not only altered transportation but changed the American factory system. In 1896, Ford met Thomas Edison, who was intrigued by his designs and helped put Ford in contact with interested investors. Ford left Edison Illuminating in 1899 to become superintendent of the Detroit Automobile Company, allowing him to devote his full attention to designing cars. 

Multiple choice physics pressure in liquids and gases common consequences of the atmospheric pressure atmospheric pressure and its consequences important points about atmospheric pressure

Which of the following scientists invented the mercury barometer?

  1. Blaise Pascal

  2. Evangelist Torricelli

  3. James Joule

  4. Robert Brown

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

Mercury barometer was invented by scientist Evangelist Torricelli

It is known fact
Therefore option $B$ is correct 

Multiple choice parts of respiration cellular respiration the respiratory system breathing for energy biology types of respiration

Which group of scientists discovered glycolysis?

  1. Embden, Merrison and Pitches

  2. Embden, Meyerhof and Parnas

  3. Emerson, Hoffman and Peterson

  4. Avery, Macleod and Mc Carthy

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

Glycolysis takes place in the liquid part of the cytoplasm i.e. cytosol. The most common type of glycolysis is the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas (EMP pathway), which was discovered by Gustav Embden, Otto Meyerhof, and Jakub Karol Parnas. 

So the correct option is 'Embden, Meyerhof and Parnas.'

Multiple choice some infectious diseases infectious diseases health and diseases biology

Who got nobel prize in 1902 for discovery of oocyst of Plasmodium?

  1. Golgi

  2. Ronald Ross

  3. Leverson

  4. Short

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Sir Ronald Ross discovered the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of mosquito and led to the realization, that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes. He received the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his work on malaria. In 1897, Ronald Ross discovered the oocysts of Plasmodium on the stomach of female Anopheles mosquito. 
Therefore, the correct answer is option B.
Multiple choice some infectious diseases infectious diseases health and diseases biology

Who discovered that mosquito served as carrier of malaria?

  1. Jonas Salk

  2. Ronald Ross

  3. Louis Pasteur

  4. Robert Koch

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

Sir Ronald Ross discovered the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of mosquito and led to the realization, that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes. He received the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his work on malaria.