scientist, discoveries & inventions MCQ section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior, usually with a focus on behavior under natural conditions. The term was first popularized by American myrmecologist (the study of ants) William Morton Wheeler in 1902.

Answer: (a)

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American brothers, who are credited with inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane on December 17, 1903. From 1905 to 1907, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon. He was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done.

Answer: (d)

Antoine Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, was the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. Radioactivity refers to the particles which are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.