scientist, discoveries & inventions MCQ section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

Agronomy is the science and technology of raising plants for food, fuel, fibre etc. To be specific, it is a branch of agricultural science that deals with the study of crops and the soils in which they grow.

Agronomists, sometimes known as crop scientists, specialize in producing and improving food crops through conducting experiments and developing methods of production.

They conduct research in crop rotation, irrigation and drainage, plant breeding, soil classification, soil fertility, weed control, and other areas.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (c)

Museology is the study of museums and museum curation. Because the framework of museums lies in material objects as primary sources, it is indirectly concerned with the preservation of historical articles.

Answer: (b)

Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin.

In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, becoming the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine to date.

Answer: (b)

John Logy Baird demonstrated the first television on 26 January 1926, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, Telecast of talking pictures on television by BBC took place on 2 July 1967, Jonas E. Salk developed the first polio vaccine in 1952.

John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, the son of a clergyman. In 1929, the German post office gave him the facilities to develop an experimental television service based on his mechanical system, the only one operable at the time.

Sound and vision were initially sent alternately and only began to be transmitted simultaneously from 1930.