Germ Theory

Germ Theory

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Biology

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9th - 10th Grade

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NGSS
MS-LS3-1, MS-LS1-1, MS-LS1-3

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Jennifer Oreskey

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which hypothesis of germ theory suggested that living things come from preexisting living things?

Spontaneous generation

pasteurization

germ theory

biogenesis

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following was NOT a believed cause of disease prior to the 1870s?

evil spirits

bad smells

bacteria

curses

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which scientist discovered the bacteria that causes smallpox using Koch's Postulates?

Edward Jenner

Robert Koch

Louis Pasteur

Allen Steere

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

An animal that carries a pathogen that can infect a human is called a .....

pathogen

disease

vector

biotic agent

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Malaria is caused in humans by being bitten by an infected mosquito. What method of how disease is spread is this an example of?

person to person

contaminated water

infected animal

mosquito

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Antibiotics will kill which of the following:

viruses

fungus

protists

bacteria

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Redi's experiment where he showed that maggots come from flies, not from meat, DISPROVES what theory?

biogenesis

spontaneous generation

relativity

pathogens

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