Scientists

Question 1

Francesco Redi

Answer 1

● Show maggots did not arise through
spontaneous generation, rather eggs
● Performed an experiment, with controls
to prove this.

Question 2

Anton
Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 2

● Built microscopes which magnified over
200 times.
● Described the matter taken from his
own teeth as having "many very little
living animalcules", describing animal
structures and movements.
● Gained recognition as the founder of
bacteria.

Question 3

Louis Pasteur

Answer 3

● Discovered diseases were caused by

germs
● Work is the foundation of microbiology
● Discovered immunization and invented
vaccines
● Discovered viruses
● Developed pasteurization and safe
medical practices.

Question 4

Alexander
Ivanovich
Oparin

Answer 4

● Wrote the “Origins of Life”
● Hypothesized about the conditions
needed for life �� Oparin Hypothesis
● Theorize atmosphere was made up of
water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen,
methane and ammonia
● Outlined stages from “primordial soup”
to living things

Question 5

Stanley Miller
Harold Urey

Answer 5

● Used methane, ammonia, hydrogen and
water with electrical current and
created amino acids.

Question 6

Lynn Margulis

Answer 6

● Developed the serial endosymbiotic
theory (SET) of the origin ofcells.

Question 7

Show maggots did not arise through
spontaneous generation, rather eggs
Performed an experiment, with controls
to prove this.

Answer 7

Francesco Redi

Question 8

Built microscopes which magnified over
200 times.
● Described the matter taken from his
own teeth as having "many very little
living animalcules", describing animal
structures and movements.
● Gained recognition as the founder of
bacteria.

Answer 8

Anton
Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 9

Discovered diseases were caused by

germs
● Work is the foundation of microbiology
● Discovered immunization and invented
vaccines
● Discovered viruses
● Developed pasteurization and safe
medical practices.

Answer 9

Louis Pasteur

Question 10

Wrote the “Origins of Life”
● Hypothesized about the conditions
needed for life �� Oparin Hypothesis
● Theorize atmosphere was made up of
water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen,
methane and ammonia
● Outlined stages from “primordial soup”
to living things

Answer 10

Alexander
Ivanovich
Oparin

Question 11

Used methane, ammonia, hydrogen and
water with electrical current and
created amino acids.

Answer 11

Stanley Miller
Harold Urey

Question 12

● Developed the serial endosymbiotic
theory (SET) of the origin ofcells.

Answer 12

Lynn Margulis