HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Louis Pasteur was a French scientist in the 1800s who is well known for his study of:
A
Evil spirits that cause disease.
B
The structure of DNA.
C
Cloning human embryos.
D
Germs and the rabies vaccine.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -During the mid-to late 19th century Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between the age of 55 and 65 Louis Pasteur developed microbiology, applying it to medicine and surgery. Having established that diseases were caused by microorganisms, he then sought to identify and find a means of fighting them. His finest accomplishment was rabies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Louis Pasteur developed the idea of immunity when he doing experiment on anthrax which was killing cows and sheep in France. He found that cow would not have anthrax second time. He thought of injecting the animals with weak germs to improve immunity.

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