Level 1
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Subject: Fighting Disease with Medicine
HOMEWORK #2
Directions: Answer using complete sentences! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Fighting Disease with Medicine
Alexander Fleming was another important scientist. In 1928, he was trying to grow some dangerous bacteria in a small dish. The bacteria were the kind that caused blood poisoning. One day, Fleming noticed a green mold growing in the dish. It looked something like bread mold. Fleming looked at the mold through a microscope. He saw that a yellow fluid was coming out of the mold. It was killing the bacteria. He called it penicillin it was the first antibiotic.
1. What did Fleming do when he saw the green mold growing in the dish?
2. What did Fleming see when he look at the green mold under the microscope?
3. What did he notice about the yellow fluid and what did he call it?
Level 2
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Subject: Fighting Disease with Medicine
HOMEWORK #2
Directions: Answer using complete sentences! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Fighting Disease with Medicine
Alexander Fleming was another important scientist. In 1928, he was trying to grow some dangerous bacteria in a small dish. The bacteria were the kind that caused blood poisoning. One day, Fleming noticed a green mold growing in the dish. It looked something like bread mold. Fleming looked at the mold through a microscope. He saw that a yellow fluid was coming out of the mold. It was killing the bacteria. Fleming had found a powerful germ killer that could be used as medicine. He called it penicillin. It was the first antibiotic. Antibiotics are medicines that are used to kill harmful bacteria. Today, antibiotics save the lives of millions of people suffering from diseases.
1. What was the yellow fluid doing and what had Fleming found?
2. What did Fleming call it and what was it?
3. What are antibiotics and how are they used today?
Level 3
Name:
Date:
Subject: Fighting Disease with Medicine
HOMEWORK #2
Directions: Answer using complete sentences! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Fighting Disease with Medicine
Alexander Fleming was another important scientist. In 1928, he was trying to grow some dangerous bacteria in a small dish. The bacteria were the kind that caused blood poisoning. One day, Fleming noticed a green mold growing in the dish. It looked something like bread mold. Fleming looked at the mold through a microscope. He saw that a yellow fluid was coming out of the mold. It was killing the bacteria. Fleming had found a powerful germ killer that could be used as medicine. He called it penicillin. It was the first antibiotic. Antibiotics are medicines that are used to kill harmful bacteria. Today, antibiotics save the lives of millions of people suffering from diseases. Louis Pasteur was a French scientist who developed some of the first vaccines. One day, a small boy was bitten by dog with a disease called rabies. At the time, anyone infected with the disease eventually died. Pasteur had just developed a vaccine for rabies, but it was for animals, not for people. The boy’s parents begged Pasteur to try to save their son. He finally agreed to try the vaccine on the boy. Pasteur’s vaccine saved the boy’s life.
1. Explain what Fleming had found, what he called it, and what it was.
2. Explain what antibiotics are used for and how they are used today.
3. Explain who Louis Pasteur was, and what he was known to have developed.
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