Doctors And Diseases Flashcards
Fungi facts (memorise) What does fungi eat What is it’s shape How does a fungi reproduce
Eats all living things
Doesn’t have a certain shape
Inside a living host
What are bacteria’s shapes
How does it multiply
Spherical, rod shaped and twisted
Splitting itself/multiplies itself
Virus shapes
Complex, spherical, helical and polyhedral
Who found atoms
Democritus
What did he say about atoms
This cliff must be made of rocks, cliffs are made of boulders, boulders are made of rocks, rocks are made of sand, sand is made of ATOMS!
What was the first medicine ever made
Penicillin
How did they make more penicillin
Someone figured out it grew on grapefruit in the form of mould
They grew it in bedpans but soon they went to America to grow more for the war
What were milk maids immune to
Small pox
What did penicillin do
Took away the bacteria’s ability to multiply