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C. he limited his research to pond water
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A. He boiled some mutton gravy and sealed the tops with corks.
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D. He boiled broth for longer periods of time and sealed the tops with melted glass.
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5. did not attempt to prove or refute the idea of spontaneous generation.
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8. Which pair of scientists were antagonists during the same period of history?
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D. acontaminated municipalwater supply.
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B. Hewas a physician whodiscovered washing your hands can reduce disease transmission.
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D. All of the above are correct.
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1. Whowas one oftheearly natural philosophers who coined the name ―cella‖for the emptycork spaces that
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became the word we use today, ―cells‖?
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A. Robert Hooke q
B. Zacharias Janssen q
C. Francesco Stalluti q
D. GiovanniFaber q
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2. Leeuwenhoek made lenses that allowed himto magnify objects more than 200X. However, he failed to
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promote scientific inquiry because:
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A. he didn't share his drawings with other scientists.
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B. he didn't reveal how he ground the lenses and no one else was doing it that well.
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C. he limited his research to pond water
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D. it was only a hobbyand he didn't live verylong
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3. Leeuwenhoek was the first person to: q q q q q
A. see viruses. q
B. use a microscope. q q
C. describe bacteria. q
D. suggestanimalcules caused disease. q q q
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4. Francesco Redi is famous for performing one of the first experiments over the debate regarding
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spontaneous generation. What was his experiment?
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A. He boiled some mutton gravy and sealed the tops with corks.
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B. He covered some jars of meat with gauze and left others open. The covered jars did not develop
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maggots, the uncovered ones did.
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,C. He showed that mice will appear with damp rags and rice.
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D. He boiled broth for longer periods of time and sealed the tops with melted glass.
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qCorrect Answer: B q q
5. did not attempt to prove or refute the idea of spontaneous generation.
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A. Francesco Redi q
B. Robert Koch q
C. Lazzaro Spallanzani q
D. Louis Pasteur q
qCorrect Answer: B q q
6. Which one of the following would be consistent with the idea of spontaneous generation?
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A. Microorganisms may be cultivated on solidlaboratory media. q q q q q q q
B. Insects are important in the transmission of disease.
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C. Sick people give rise to microorganisms in their body.
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D. Disinfection is essential to prevent thespread of microorganisms. q q q q q q q q
qCorrect Answer: C q q
7. Spallanzani‘sexperiments showed that: q q q
A. viruses were transmitted by water. q q q q
B. spontaneousgeneration occurs. q q
C. miasma was the cause of disease. q q q q q
D. experiments can bemodified to test ahypothesis. q q q q q q q
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8. Which pair of scientists were antagonists during the same period of history?
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9. Semmelweis showed that the transmission of disease could beinterrupted by: q q q q q q q q q q
A. killing disease-carrying mosquitoes. q q
B. disinfecting water supplies. q q
C. pasteurizing milk. q
D. washinghandsinchlorine water. q q q q
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10. In 1854, John Snowdetermined that contaminated water transmits:
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11. John Snow traced the source of an 1854 outbreak of cholera to:
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A. consumption of contaminated beef. q q q
B. an increase in infected mosquitoes.
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C. yeast cells on contaminated apples.
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B. Hewas a physician whodiscovered washing your hands can reduce disease transmission.
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C. He was the first to see a pathogen that causes disease.
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D. All of the above are correct.
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