chapter 14 section 2 description

Question 1

discovered penicillin in 1928

Answer 1

Alexander Fleming

Question 2

i discovered a new form of ray that could go through many substances, including human skin and tissue

Answer 2

Rontgen

Question 3

i am the naturalist who published a theory of evolution in 1859

Answer 3

Charles Darwin

Question 4

I am the use of chemicals to kill disease causing germs developed by Joseph Lister

Answer 4

Antisepsis

Question 5

i discovered why Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine worked by identifying micro-organisms called bacteria

Answer 5

Louis Pasteur

Question 6

i am the study of how the inborn characteristics of plants and animals are inherited by their descendants

Answer 6

genetics

Question 7

I made the first workable classification of the elements

Answer 7

Mendeleyev

Question 8

we discovered the process of radio activity through our work with radium and polonium

Answer 8

Pierre and Marie Curie