BIOLOGY: Invention of the microscope and cell theory

Which of the following options is NOT what people would have thought were the causes of an epidemic before the invention of the microscope?

• The town where the disease started is haunted by demons or witches.
• The town where the disease started is afflicted by an evil curse.
• The town where the disease started is being punished by God.
• The town where the disease started has a germ causing the infection.

What is abiogenesis, also known as "spontaneous generation"?

• The belief that living things could be formed from non-living things.
• The belief that non-living things could be formed from living things.
• The belief that plants are not living things because they don't move.
• The belief that the meat from a dead animal is still a living thing.

Who was the scientist who use the term "cells" for the first time?

• Robert Hooke
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• Captain Hook

What was the name that Anton van Leeuwenhoek gave to the microorganisms he observed in water?

• Animalcules
• Germs
• Animaniacs
• Moleculanimals

What is the level of organization of life made by a group of organs that work together to perform vital functions?

• Tissue
• Organ
• System
• Organism

Which of the following is the correct form of one of the principles of the Cell Theory?

• Virus are the smallest units of life.
• All organisms are composed of more than one cell.
• All cells come from pre-existing cells.
• All organisms have organs.

Before the postulation of the Germ Theory, people believed in the Miasma Theory. What did the Miasma Theory say was the cause of diseases instead of germs?

• Breathing bad or poisonous air was the cause of diseases.
• Drinking dirty water was the cause of the diseases.
• Sudden changes in temperature were the cause of diseases.
• Contamination of the soil and eating uncooked meat.

Select the correct part of the microscope described: The lens that has the magnifying power necessary for specimen visualization (you change it by rotating the nosepiece).

• Objective
• Condenser
• Eyepiece
• Coarse adjustment knob

Select the correct part of the microscope described: The moving part that opens and closes to allow you to adjust the amount of light from the illuminator that reaches the glass slide.

• Diaphragm
• Stage knob
• Nosepiece
• Coarse adjustment knob

Select the correct part of the microscope described: The moving part that you can rotate in order to move the stage sideways to move the glass slide in search for something on the sample observed.

• Nosepiece
• Stage knob
• Coarse adjustment knob
• Diaphragm