Important Biologists

6. Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

a) Albert Sabin

b) Jonas Salk

c) Edward Jenner

d) Louis Pasteur

7. Who discovered the role of DNA in heredity?

a) Friedrich Miescher

b) Oswald Avery

c) Erwin Chargaff

d) Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty

8. Who proposed the germ theory of disease?

a) Louis Pasteur

b) Robert Koch

c) Edward Jenner

d) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

9. Who discovered the first antibiotic, sulfa drugs?

a) Paul Ehrlich

b) Alexander Fleming

c) Gerhard Domagk

d) Edward Jenner

10. Who discovered insulin?

a) Frederick Banting

b) Charles Best

c) James Collip

d) All of the above