Banting's Life
Diabetes Before Insulin
The Men Behind the Discovery of insulin
The Discovery of Insulin
Historical Significance of the Discovery of Insulin
100
Banting studied medicine at this school.
What is the University of Toronto?
100
Diabetes occurs when this is higher than normal.
What are blood sugar levels?
100
Banting partnered with this medical student who assisted in him in discovering insulin.
Who is Charles Best?
100
Banting tested insulin on this animal.
What is a dog.
100
Banting and MacLeod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in this year.
When was 1923?
200
Banting received this for heroism under fire during WWII.
What is the military cross?
200

Diabetes occurs when the body cannot properly regulate this substance in the blood.

What is glucose?

200
This biochemist assisted in the isolating of insulin.
Who is James Collip?
200
Killing pancreatic digestive cells results in thousands of these.
What are islets?
200
The discovery of insulin gained Canada a lot of recognition in this field.
What is the medical field.
300
Banting was offered a position at Western University in this department.
What is the department of surgery and physiology?
300
Before the discovery of insulin, this would happen to all diabetes patients.
What is death?
300
This man lead the research team that discovered insulin and saved the lives of millions of people.
Who is Frederick Banting?
300
Banting and Best discovered insulin at this researching facility.
What is the University of Toronto?
300

This type of diabetes usually appears in children and occurs when the pancreas produces little or no insulin.

What is Type 1 diabetes?

400

During World War I, Banting spent over a year at a surgeon at a Canadian military hospital located in this English county.

What is Kent?

400
in the nineteenth century, doctors tried healing diabetes patients with these methods.
What were bleeding, cupping or blistering.
400
This man provided Banting with a laboratory and dogs for experimentation.
Who is Professor J. MacLeod?
400
This boy was the first to receive insulin.
Who was Leonard Thompson?
400
Banting and MacLeod did this when they received the Nobel Prize.
What was sharing it with Best and Collip?
500
Banting gained his medical degree in this year.
When was 1916.
500

The enzyme trypsin destroyed early insulin extracts because both insulin and trypsin belong to this broad biological category of molecules.

What are proteins

500
These two men received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin.
Who were Banting and MacLeod?
500
Eli Lilly was the first company to produce insulin in this year.
When was 1922?
500
This saved the lives of millions suffering from diabetes.
What was the discovery of insulin?
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