Question

Sometimes new information results in minor changes to a theory. But sometimes new information results in a theory being discarded as incorrect. An example of an incorrect theory that was disproved by the discovery of new information is
Ptolemy’s theory of the solar system.
the original cell theory.
the germ theory.
plate tectonic theory.

Answer 1

Ptolemy’s theory of the solar system.

It was the geocentric model (Earth-centered) later replaced after observations (e.g., phases of Venus, stellar parallax, improved planetary motion models) showed the heliocentric model was correct. The other choices (cell theory, germ theory, plate tectonics) are accepted scientific theories that were refined, not discarded.