Question : Who among the following scientists used the word 'Protoplasm' for the first time for living cells?
Option 1: Robert Hooke
Option 2: Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Option 3: Jan Evangelista Purkyn
Option 4: Robert Brown
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Correct Answer: Jan Evangelista Purkyn
Solution : The correct option is Jan Evangelista Purkyně.
"protoplasm" in the early nineteenth century. He used the phrase to describe the jelly-like fluid that fills creatures' live cells. The concept of protoplasm was significant in early knowledge of cellular biology and the study of life processes at the cellular level.
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Question : Which scientist explained that cells divide and new cells are formed from pre-existing cells?
Option 1: Theodor Schwann
Option 2: Rudolf Virchow
Option 3: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Option 4: Robert Hooke
Question : Who had used the term "Ecology" the first time?
Option 1: Charles Darwin
Option 2: Robert Whittaker
Option 3: Ernst Haeckel
Option 4: Arthur Tansley
Question : The loss of weight of a body submerged (partially or fully) in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. Who among the following scientists was the first one to establish this phenomenon?
Option 1: Daniel Bernoulli
Option 2: Archimedes
Option 3: Osborne Reynolds
Option 4: Evangelista Torricelli
Question : Due to the presence of which of the following, there is a difference between animal cells and plant cells?
Option 1: Ribosomes
Option 2: Cell wall
Option 3: Chloroplast
Option 4: Protoplasm
Question : A double helical model of DNA was proposed by___________.
Option 1: Watson and Crick
Option 2: Robert Hook
Option 3: Robert Brown
Option 4: Har Gobind Khorana
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