Medicine - Modern Peg Test

Question 1

What does modern mean?

Answer 1

The present or recent times

Question 2

What happened in 1907?

Answer 2

All births registered, health visitors and medical checks on children at school

Question 3

When did the first medical cure come about (Salverson 606) and who was responsible?

Answer 3

1909 and Ehlich

Question 4

When was the National Insurance Act?

Answer 4

1911

Question 5

What happened in 1919?

Answer 5

The Ministry of Health

Question 6

When did Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 6

1928

Question 7

When was Penicillin mass produced?

Answer 7

WW2

Question 8

Which event was a catalyst for the mass production of penicillin?

Answer 8

D-Day

Question 9

What year was the NHS introduced? What was this exactly a century after?

Answer 9

1948 and the first public health act

Question 10

When was the structure of DNA discovered?

Answer 10

1953

Question 11

The Human Genome Project was completed in 1982. True or False?

Answer 11

False, it was completed in 2001

Question 12

What is a lifestyle factor?

Answer 12

A lifestyle factor is a factor relating to your lifestyle that causes illness

Question 13

Give 3 examples of a lifestyle factor?

Answer 13

Smoking, heavy drinking and stress.

Question 14

The development of real democracy increased the demands from working people for the government to make changes to improve health care - what is this?

Answer 14

Political Attitudes

Question 15

What did the NHS do?

Answer 15

It gave medical treatment to the lower classes who couldn’t afford medical treatments

Question 16

What does life expectancy mean?

Answer 16

The average period that a person may expect to live

Question 17

What do you call a tiny microorganism responsible for colds, flu and chicken pox?

Answer 17

Virus

Question 18

What are genes made out of?

Answer 18

DNA

Question 19

What are sulphonamide drugs?

Answer 19

Antibacterial drugs used to treat bronchitis and pneumonia

Question 20

What do we call bacteria that have developed immunity?

Answer 20

Superbugs

Question 21

What is staphylococci?

Answer 21

Bacteria found in our skin

Question 22

What is the formal name for blood poisoning?

Answer 22

Septicemia

Question 23

True or false? Biochemistry is the study of the chemical process that occur in living things?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

What is diagnosis?

Answer 24

The identification of the nature of an illness by examination of the symptoms

Question 25

What is a camera inside a flexible tube passed into the body to see inside the body

Answer 25

Endoscope

Question 26

What does an officer of health do?

Answer 26

Look after the public health of an area

Question 27

True of false? Chemotherapy treats disease using raduim

Answer 27

False, that’s radiotherapy

Question 28

True of false? Chemotherapy treats disease using chemicals

Answer 28

True, used for cancer

Question 29

What is a transfusion?

Answer 29

The transfer of blood from a person

Question 30

Is the immune system the body’s defence system against disease?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

What does immunotherapy do?

Answer 31

Treats disease through stimulation of the immune system

Question 32

What is a medical treatment that uses normal genes to replace defective ones

Answer 32

Genetherapy