Modern Medicine

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Test Your Knowledge of Modern Medicine

Are you a healthcare enthusiast or just curious about the world of medicine? Take our quiz to challenge yourself and learn fascinating facts about modern medicine!

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Henry Gray gave his name to a famous book on ______. (if you learned most of what you know about modern medicine from a certain show, you'll get this question right ;)

Surgery

Anatomy

Cardiology

Dermatology

What colour is blood until it hits the surface?

Red

Black

Green

Blue

The world's first successful vaccine treated which disease?

Smallpox

Rabies

Cholera

Influenza

What is the official term for the part of the body that Sir Mix-A-Lot sings about in Baby Got Back?

Gluteus minimus

Gluteus maximus

Gluteal muscles

Glutes

What is the full form of COVID-19?

What great medical discovery was made by Crick and Watson in 1953?

Stem cells

Double helix structure of DNA

Chemical composition of DNA

Vaccines

The widely made claim that X improve one’s eyesight due to its Y content seems to mostly have its origins in WWII propaganda. In short, the British Royal Air Force had developed secret radar technology that made it easier to attack Nazi bombers at night. To help conceal this technology, they also launched a campaign that more or less directly told citizens their new success was just thanks to feeding their pilots an excess of X.

X: broccoli, Y: vitamin A

X: broccoli, Y: vitamin C

X: carrots, vitamin C

X: carrots, vitamin A

What is the infective agent implicated in acne?

Propionibacterium acnes

Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus epidermidis

Streptococcus pyogenes

Everyone knows this often meme-d component of the cell, but which of the following comments is false?

Nicknamed the powerhouse of the cell, first coined by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 article of the same name.

Mitochondrion has its own genome ("mitogenome") that is substantially similar to bacterial genomes

Produces chemical energy by the production of ADP

Mitochondrion is composed of compartmentsthat carry out specialized functions

Who is the Father of Modern Medicine?

William Osler

Hippocrates

Galen

Joseph Lister

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