correct
Where will the course reading and discussion take place? - correct answer
✔Perusall
You can finish the entire course by week two, if you work hard. - correct
answer ✔False
How many quizzes are there during the entire course? - correct answer ✔10
What software is essential for this course? - correct answer ✔Excel
Which category has no effect on your final grade? - correct answer
✔Attendance
An IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) must have at least
five members. One of these members must be a veterinarian. - correct
answer ✔True
What disease was George Minot diagnosed with when he was 35 years old? -
correct answer ✔Diabetes
The Flexner report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada
concluded that: - correct answer ✔Medical Schools should be racially
integrated
Medical education needed to be reformed
, What causes pernicious anemia? - correct answer ✔A vitamin deficiency
Diabetes was first described - correct answer ✔Independently by many
different cultures
Around 1920, the amount of glucose in blood could be measured by an
electronic meter. - correct answer ✔False
Charles Evan Hughes, the US Secretary of State in 1920, was diagnosed with
diabetes in 1920. - correct answer ✔False
The best treatment for diabetes about 1915 was known as: - correct answer
✔The starvation diet
During the summer of 1921, Fred Banting performed experiments on dogs. In
one group of dogs, he tried to cause the dogs to develop diabetes by
removing an organ. Which organ did he remove: - correct answer
✔Pancreas
A child who develops diabetes typically loses weight. In 1920, the best
treatment for this child would be to: - correct answer ✔restrict diet, causing
more weight loss
George Walden was the engineer at the Eli Lilly in charge of insulin production
and purification. George Walden's major contribution was that: - correct
answer ✔He invented isoelectric precipitation.
The quantity known as pH measures: - correct answer ✔The concentration
of hydrogen ions in a solution