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WorksheetsHenritta Lacks & Dr. Charles Drew Biographies
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was Dr. Charles Drew known for?
HeLa cells
Cancer research
Blood Banks & Plasma
IVF
What school did Dr.Charles Drew attend?
Columbia University
Harvard
Yale
What did Dr. Charles Drew do for blood banks
Revolutionized the understanding of plasma
Set standards on how to safely do blood transfusions
Established protocols on how blood should be collected
All the above
Where did he work and then resign from because they ruled that the blood of African-Americans would be segregated and not used on white troops, although blood has no racial characteristics
Red Cross
Regional Medical Hospital
US Military
Where was Dr. Drew a professor and head of surgery at Freedman’s Hospital
Howard University
Tuskgee University
Columbia University
Why is plasma able to be stored?
Plasma is more fluid
Plasma lasts much longer than whole blood
Plasma has more blood cells
Because it is yellow
What is Plasma?
the liquid portion of blood without cells.
The portion of blood with the cells
Red blood cells
White blood cells
He was the first African-American to get his doctorate from __________University in 1940
Harvard
Columbia
Maryland
McGill
Drew was the world’s leading authority on blood transfusions and storage, just as the United States and Great Britain were becoming deeply involved in ______
World War I
World War II.
The Cold War
The Civil War
How did Dr. Charles Drew die
In World War II
In a car accident returning from a clinic at Tuskegee Institute
During a blood transfusion
Drew was the world’s leading authority on blood transfusions and storage, just as the United States and Great Britain were becoming deeply involved in ______
World War I
World War II.
The Cold War
The Civil War
What was Henritta Lacks Known for?
Being the subject of a medical experiment that is still saving lives today
White Blood Cells
Blood transfusions
Plasma
Platelets
How did she end up in the hospital?
Lacks was a 31-year-old mother of five when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
She had breast cancer.
She had colon cancer.
She got in a car crash
What hospital was she at?
Tampa General Hospital
Lakeland Regional Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Bayfront Medical Center
All Childrens
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore sliced pieces of tissue from her cancerous tumor without her ______— in effect, stealing them
Content
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Lacks was not a slave, but parts of her cancerous tumor represent the first human cells ever__________________
researched on
bought and sold
stored in a lab
Her cells, known among scientists as HeLa, were unusual in that they could
Rapidly reproduce and stay alive long enough to undergo multiple tests.
Clone
Undergo tests
What did HeLa cells play an important part in researching
Cloning
IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)
Developing the polio vaccine
Treating herpes, leukemia, influenza and Parkinson’s disease.
All the above
They’ve been influential in the study of cancer, lactose digestion, sexually transmitted diseases and appendicitis.
Plasma
WBC
HeLa Cells
Lacks’ story is an example of the often-problematic intersection of ________________a link to the dark history of exploitation of, and experimentation on, African-Americans
ethics
race
medicine
ethics, race, and medicine
How are Henritta Lacks and Dr. Charles Drew similar?
They were both doctors
The study of Plasma
The study of Cervical Cancer Cells
How blood is collected and stored
They both contributed to medical research
Why is Howard University important?
Because Dr. Charles Drew studied and taught there
Because it is a Historically Black College and University (HBCU)
It was where Henritta Lacks cells were studied
How old was Henritta Lacks when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer?
27
30
31
25
