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WorksheetsDiabetes and Insulin Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
In what year was insulin discovered?
1921
1889
1910
1900
Who were the two German researchers that found the link between the pancreas and diabetes in 1889?
Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering
Frederick Banting and Charles Best
Edward Sharpey-Shafer and Langerhans
Albert Einstein and Max Planck
What was the most effective treatment for diabetes before insulin was discovered?
Strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake
Regular exercise
Herbal medicine
Insulin injections
What does the Latin word "insula," from which insulin is derived, mean?
Island
Sugar
Pancreas
Life
Who was the young surgeon that figured out how to remove insulin from a dog’s pancreas in 1921?
Frederick Banting
Oskar Minkowski
Edward Sharpey-Shafer
Joseph von Mering
Who was the first person to receive an injection of insulin?
Frederick Banting
Leonard Thompson
J.B. Collip
John Macleod
In what year did Banting and Macleod receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on insulin?
1922
1923
1936
1982
Which company started large-scale production of insulin soon after its discovery?
Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals
Eli Lilly
Pfizer
GlaxoSmithKline
What was the first commercially available biosynthetic human insulin called?
Novolog
Humalog
Humulin
Lantus
What year was the first genetically engineered synthetic "human" insulin produced?
1922
1936
1978
1982
