1. How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
2. How did his mother help him in becoming a scientist?
3. Ebright showed the signs that he would do amazing things when he would grow
up. What are they?
4. Why did he soon lose interest in tagging butterflies?
5. Mention any two of Ebright’s contributions to the world of science.
6. What was Ebright’s achievement in his senior year?
7. What did Ebright do for his eighth grade project?
8. What are the other interests of Ebright?
Answers
1st Ans‐ The book about monarch butter's fly migration to central America opened the new world of science to the eager young mind. ... Thus the book was a turning point in his life because it helped him to study butterflies.
2nd Ans‐His mother played a pivotal role in whetting his desire to learn and know more; she often bought him telescopes, microscopes, cameras, mounting materials, and many other things. When Ebright was just in second grade, he had collected all the species of butterflies in his town.
3rd Ans‐He found that cells would divide and grow into a normal butterfly if they were fed a hormone that was found in the gold spots of the monarch.
4th Ans‐he lost interest because only two of his tagged butterflies were returned to him and they had travelled only seventy-five miles.
5th Ans‐ He carried experiments to show effectively that hormone produced with the aid of the gold spots of a pupa is accountable for the increase and formation of butterfly-wings. He discovered too that how a cell may study the blueprint of its DNA that controls heredity.
6th Ans‐In his senior year in high school, Ebright took a step ahead in his advanced experiments on the monarch pupa. He cultured cells from a monarch butterfly's wing and showed that the cells would divide and develop into normal butterfly wing scales only if they were fed the hormone from the gold spots.
7th Ans‐For his eighth grade project, Ebright tried to find the cause of a viral disease that kills nearly all monarch caterpillars every few years. Ebright thought the disease might be carried by a beetle. He tried raising caterpillars in the presence of beetles. “I didn't get any real results,” he said.
8th Ans‐Richard Ebright was interested in science since childhood but he also had many other interests. He was a passionate public speaker and was an important part of Debating Society and Model United Nations Club. He was also an enthusiastic photographer, especially interested in nature and scientific exhibits.
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