MCQ on Plant Science - Term coined by

Term coined by

1. The term Meiosis was given by:

a)A Fleming

b)Frame  and Moore

c)Johansen

d)Knoll and Ruska

2.The term “antibiotic” was coined by

 a)Edward Jenner

b)Louis Pasteur

c)Selman Waksman

d)Alexander Fleming

3. The term ‘protoplasm’ was given by

a)Fischer

b)Purkinje

c)Brown

d)Dujardine

4. The term mutation was introduced by

a)Darwin

b) Mendel

c)Hugo de vries

d)Lamark

5. The term ‘guttation’ was coined by

a)Kramer

b)Priestley

c)Stephan Hales

d)Bergerstein

6. The term ‘gene’ was introduced by

a)Bateson

b)Johnnsen

c)Mendel

d)Morgan

7.The term ecosystem was first coined by

 a)odum

b)Tansley

c)Reiter

d)None of these

8.The term ‘chromatophore’ was coined by

 a)Schmitz

b)WPfeiffer

c)Singer and Nocolson

d)Comparethi

9.The term ‘cytoplasm’ and ‘nuceloplasm’ were given by

a)Purkinje

b)Strasburger

c)Brown

d)Fleming

10.The term mitochondria was given by

a)Benda

b)Palade

c)de Duve

d)Altmann

Answers

1. b)Frame  and Moore

2. c)Selman Waksman

3. b)Purkinje

4. c)Hugo de vries

5. d)Bergerstein

6. b)Johnnsen

7. b)Tansley

8. a)Schmitz

9. b)Strasburger

10.a)Benda