Flashcards for history medicine through time edexcel gcse
| Question | how did the governments attitudes change from the 1860s? |
| Answer | they began to take more actionfollowing the great stink of 1858, a modern sewer system was built in london by joseph bazalgettein 1875, parliament passed the second public health act |
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| Question | what was the royal society? |
| Answer | an influential group of scientists formed in 1660its members shared experiments and promoted scientific ideas |
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| Question | what was the human genome project in the modern period? |
| Answer | in 1990, scientists led by james watson launched the human genome project, which was a project to identify the complete set of dna which makes up human beings (over 3 billion pairs)it took hundreds of scientists from 18 countries over 10 years to completescientists can now use this 'blueprint' to look for mistakes or mismatches in the dna of people with hereditary diseases |
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