scientist, discoveries & inventions MCQ section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Phycology is the scientific study of algae. Phycology or algology is a branch of life science and often is regarded as a sub-discipline of botany. It includes the study of prokaryotic forms known as blue-green algae or cyanobacteria.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone).

Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other; Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first.

Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.

Answer: (d)

Myrmecology is a branch of entomology focusing on the scientific study of ants. The word myrmecology was coined by William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937). The earliest scientific thinking based on observation of ant life was that of Auguste Forel (1848–1931)

Answer: (a)