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1. Louis Pasteur did an important experiment to show that food rots because of which reason?
2. The experiment with the swan-necked flasks lead Pasteur to believe that there was a way to treat some beverages to make them safer to drink, and make them keep longer before going bad. This method is still used today for something you probably put on your cereal! What is this delicious and nutritious beverage?
3. Louis Pasteur invented several of these during his lifetime to prevent disease, and is believed to have been the first to use this term, which is based on the Latin word for 'cow'.
4. Pasteur also used his microbiology know-how to prove that the troubles experienced by which important contributor to fashionable clothing were the result of microscopic creatures?
5. Pasteur was also the first to show that some bacteria are able to live without which of the following?
6. Pasteur was among the first to suggest that which of the following might be a good practice for doctors and scientists?
7. Before he started studying diseases and bacteria, Pasteur was a chemist who worked with crystals and reflected light through them, and was the first to demonstrate 'chirality'. Which of the following best describes chirality?
8. Pasteur's work inspired a surgeon from Scotland to begin disinfecting instruments, bandages and the patient's skin before surgery. Who was this surgeon, whose name you may recognize from a popular kind of mouthwash named after him?
9. Although a brilliant man, Pasteur rejected the evolution theories of another famous scientist of his time. This other scientist's theories are now widely accepted among biologists; who was this scientist?
10. When he first began school, Pasteur was not considered to be a very good student, Which of the subjects below was the only one his teachers felt he was good at?
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