Louis Pasteur - HERO - Short Question Answers

Lesson 14

Louis Pasteur

Margaret Avery

 

 

Q.1    Describe the early life of Pasteur.

Ans: Pasteur was born in a poor family at Dole, France in 1822 where he went to Communal College.

 

Q.2    Give some instances of Pasteur’s patriotism.

Ans: He enrolled himself in the National Guard. He returned his degree to Germany because of her War with France.

 

Q.3    What do we mean by spontaneous generation?

Ans:   It means that living organisms can come into being by themselves.

 

Q.4    How did Pasteur proved that spontaneous generation was not a fact?

Ans:  Pasteur proved through experiments that the development of organisms can be avoided if their contact is filtered.

 

Q.5   Describe the importance and popularity of the silkworm industry in France. What help did Pasteur render in curing the silkworm disease in his country?

Ans:  The keeping of silkworm was one of the chief industries in France. He asked the people to keep the insects in clean and healthy conditions.

 

Q.6    How did Pasteur discover the treatment for the cattle disease, Anthrax?

Ans:  He introduced the weak germs of Anthrax into diseased animal’s blood.

 

Q.7    How did Pasteur discover the method of making vaccines?

Ans:  He discovered this method when he inoculated chickens with weak germs of Cholera which built up their immunity.

 

Q.8   Give an account of Pasteur’s treatment of Hydrophobia and how he cured the first patient suffering from it?

Ans:  Pasteur took experiments on mad dogs and finally, he treated a boy by inoculating him weak germs of Hydrophobia.

 

Q.9    How did Pasteur show the way to other scientists? Give an account of the discoveries.

Ans:  Pasteur’s discoveries urged other scientists to try similar methods of cure for other diseases. Hence, they discovered the germs and their treatment of many diseases.