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Initial history of plant pathology

1. Who is known as ‘The father of botany’?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


2. Who invented the microscope in the 17th century?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


3. Who discovered bacteria in 1617?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


4. Who made an extensive study of fungi and their reproductive structures in 1729?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


5. Who gave the first experimental proof that fungi were autonomous organisms which produced seed-like bodies?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


6. Who gave the binomial system of nomenclature?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


7. Who applied the binomial system of nomenclature to fungi and gave firm footing to the taxonomy of fungi?

A. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus's students Persoon and Fries


8. Who experimentally proved that wheat seeds dusted with bunt powder gave rise to bunted plants?

A. Tillet

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


9. Who established that bunt disease of wheat was contagious?

A. Tillet

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


10. Who was not aware that the bunt powder consisted of spores of the fungus and ascribed the disease to some poison present in the dust?

A. Tillet

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


11. Who observed that chemical treatment of seeds prevented the disease?

A. Tillet

B. Micheli

C. Theophrastus

D. Linnaeus


Answers: 

1. C

2. A

3. A

4. B

5. B

6. D

7. D

8. A

9. A

10. A

11. A

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