Daily Practice · GCSE History

Daily Practice - GCSE History

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25th December 2021

5 questions · GCSE · 483 questions in this band

  1. 1
    Medicine in Britain, c1900-present: War, Science and the Development of Penicillin

    Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.

  2. 2
    Medicine in Britain, c1900-present: The NHS, Genetics and Modern Public Health

    Who worked out the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, building on Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images?

  3. 3
    Medicine in Britain, c1250-present: Change and Continuity in Ideas About the Cause of Disease

    In what year did Louis Pasteur publish germ theory, and what did it prove?

  4. 4
    Medicine in Britain, c1250-present: Change and Continuity in the Treatment and Prevention of Disease

    Who discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect in 1928, and who later developed it into a usable drug in the 1940s?

  5. 5
    The Black Death, 1348-49: Causes, Spread and Contemporary Responses

    Why were medieval responses to the Black Death unable to stop it spreading?

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