Basic Science General Knowledge Questions
Who was the father of the Binomial Nomenclature of organisms?
(A) Mendel
(B) Linnaeus
(C) Lamarck
(D) Darwin
Correct Answer : B
Who discovered hydrogen?
(A) Priestley
(B) Boyle
(C) Charles
(D) Cavendish
Correct Answer : D
Artificial fission of molecules was discovered by?
(A) Dalton
(B) Fermi
(C) Rutherford
(D) Madame Curie
Correct Answer : B
The unit of which quantity is taken from Ohm's law?
(A) electric current
(B) resistance
(C) of potential difference
(D) electric capacitance
Correct Answer : B
Who was the scientist who discovered the fact that the center of the planetary system is the Sun and not the Earth?
(A) Copernicus
(B) Kepler
(C) Newton
(D) Galileo
Correct Answer : A
Which of the following scientist discovered the principles of heredity?
(A) Darwin
(B) Mendel
(C) DeVries
(D) Lamarck
Correct Answer : B
Smallpox vaccine was invented by?
(A) Priestley
(B) Ruffetin
(C) Edward Jenner
(D) Lloyd
Correct Answer : C
Ptolemy's theory of the earth is that?
(A) Earth is the center of the universe and the Sun revolves around it
(B) Earth is not the center of the universe and the Sun does not revolve around it
(C) Earth rotates as well as rotates
(D) Earth is a satellite of the Sun
Correct Answer : A
Who invented the bulb?
(A) Rutherford
(B) Fleming
(C) Edison
(D) Ohm
Correct Answer : C
Who discovered 'Streptomycin'?
(A) Waxman
(B) Rutherford
(C) Bushwell
(D) none of these
Correct Answer : A