Medical Discoveries Quiz

Who was Louis Pasteur?

• A British scientist

• A French university science professor

• An Irish physicist

• A French doctor

What did Louis Pasteur discover about alcohol and milk?

• He discovered a way to prevent tuberculosis from spreading through milk

• He discovered a way to prevent milk from going sour

• All of the above

• He discovered a way to prevent alcohol from going sour

What is the process called that Louis Pasteur invented to treat milk?

• Fermentation

• Pasteurization

• Microorganism elimination

• Decay prevention

What did Robert Hooke invent?

• The pasteurization process

• The microscope

• The vaccination method

• The germ theory

What did Antony van Leeuwenhoek name the tiny living things he observed under a microscope?

• Microbes

• Germs

• Miasma

• Animalcules

What was the popular theory about the presence of microorganisms in decay called?

• The decay theory

• The germ theory

• The spontaneous generation theory

• The vaccination theory

According to Louis Pasteur's germ theory, what causes decay?

• Decay and microorganisms are unrelated

• Microorganisms create decay

• Decay creates microorganisms

• Decay and microorganisms have a symbiotic relationship

What did Louis Pasteur discover about chicken cholera?

• All of the above

• He discovered that chickens can fight off cholera on their own

• He discovered a way to prevent chicken cholera

• He discovered that the summer weakens cholera germs

Who linked the work of Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur to support germ theory?

• Dr. Henry Bastian

• Antony van Leeuwenhoek

• John Tyndall

• Edward Jenner