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Title / Scientist(s)
Idea and evidence
Vocabulary /
No.
Resources
Science Terminology
Matching topics in
KS3 Science /
KS4 Biology (S4-6)
4–9 Discovery of a miracle drug
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Fleming found that one of his bacterial cultures was
bacteria
- Alexander Fleming (1881 –
contaminated by a green mould. He noticed that the
contaminate
1955)
bacterial colonies were absent in the region around
mould
the mould.
Penicillium
He put forward a hypothesis that the mould had
penicillin
produced a substance (penicillin) which killed the
scarlet fever
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KS3 Science (S1-3)
Unit 1
CD Track X1
1.4 Conducting a simple
scientific investigation
KS4 Biology (S4-6)
bacteria. However, he could not isolate penicillin and it pneumonia
IV Health and Diseases
was impossible for him to do further research.
meningitis
b. Diseases
In 1940, two scientists succeeded in isolating and
gonorrhoea
- Treatment of infectious
purifying penicillin. Penicillin was injected into mice
syphilis
diseases
and humans, it was found to be very effective in curing diphtheria
the infections.
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anthrax
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10– Diabetes and the pancreas
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Early studies showed that there was a link between
blood glucose
- Frederick Banting
diabetes and the pancreas.
diabetes mellitus
(1891 – 1941) and Charles Best •
In 1917, a Japanese scientist found that the islets of
pancreas
(1899 – 1978)
Langerhans (but not the acinar tissue) are involved in
acinar tissue
digested and absorbed in
the regulation of blood glucose level.
pancreatic juice
our body
Frederick Banting and Charles Best performed a
digestive enzyme
- Human digestive
series of experiments to find out whether pancreatic
islets of Langerhans
system
•
extract could be used as a drug to treat diabetes. They insulin
Worksheet 2
KS3 Science (S1-3)
Unit 12
CD Track X2
12.5 How food is
- Digestion
called the active substance in the extract insulin.
KS4 Biology (S4-6)
III Organisms and
Environment
e. Homeostasis
- Regulation of blood
glucose level
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16– William Harvey and the
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In the 17th century, people believed that blood flowed
circulatory system
circulation of blood
back and forth from the heart along the same blood
valve
- William Harvey (1578 – 1657)
vessels.
vein
In 1628, Harvey put forward a hypothesis that blood
artery
was carried away from the heart by the arteries and
air sac
returned to the heart through the veins, forming a
capillary
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KS3 Science (S1-3)
Unit 12
CD Track X3
12.7 Our circulatory
system
KS4 Biology (S4-6)
continuous circulation of blood around the body.
III Organisms and
In 1661, Malpighi found that the finest arteries and
Environment
veins were connected by small blood vessels. This
b. Essential life
provided a strong support to Harvey’s hypothesis.
processes in animals
- Transport of substances
in humans
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