Causes of Disease (Modern) Flashcards
1
Q
Continued?
A
The proven ideas of micro-organisms as the cause of disease continued without doubt
2
Q
What did Crick and Watson discover?
A
DNA structure (1953)
3
Q
What impact did the discovery of DNA have on medicine?
A
Allowed many diseases previously thought not to be inherited to be proved otherwise, such as Alzheimers
4
Q
What did Henry Dale discover?
A
Discovered the chemical, histamine, allowing the understanding of allergic responses
5
Q
What did Banting and Best discover?
A
Insulin. => this found the cause of diabetes because of it
