Science

The dating of fossil animals and plants counting the ridges on fossil shells and corals is known as
Palaeochronology

The study of annual rings in trees to determine dates and environmental conditions in the past is known as
Dendrochronology

Who was the first person to discover the existence of male and female reproductive cells?
Hippocrates

Which scientist is reputed to have invented the term ‘biology’?
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

What is ‘the theory of spontaneous generation’?
Origin of life from non-life

Who gave the name ‘artery’ to the blood vessels which carry oxygenated blood?
Praxagoras of Cos

Who was the first scientist to have conducted dissections of the human body?
Alcmaeon

The first person to float in space was
Alexei Leonov

Which was the first spaceship to hit the moon?
Lunik-II

In which year the first man landed on the moon?
1969