Koch

Who began to apply Pasteur's ideas to human diseases in the late 1870s?

• Alexander Fleming

• John Snow

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

What disease did Robert Koch identify as being caused by bacteria?

• Common cold

• Cancer

• Diabetes

• Tuberculosis

How did Koch prove that microbes caused diseases?

• By growing microbes in petri dishes and testing on animals

• By writing a book

• By talking to doctors

• By asking the government

What did Koch's work prove about cholera?

• It was in drinking water

• It was a genetic disease

• It was caused by bad air

• It was caused by sunlight

What was the British government's belief about cholera?

• It was caused by bad weather

• It was spread by cats

• It was a myth

• It was in the soil

What impact did Koch's work have on medicine?

• It improved hospital food

• It helped diagnose diseases by identifying microbes

• It made surgeries safer

• It made exercise more popular

Who did the French government back in the rivalry between France and Germany?

• John Snow

• Marie Curie

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

What did Koch inspire other scientists to discover?

• A new kind of food

• A way to live forever

• Microbes for pneumonia, tetanus, and meningitis

• New planets

What prize did Koch win in 1905?

• Nobel prize for peace

• Nobel prize for physics

• Nobel prize for medicine

• Nobel prize for literature

What was a major outcome of Germ Theory by the end of the 1800s?

• People stopped eating vegetables

• People traveled more

• People lived in taller buildings

• People knew what caused illness and disease