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Compiled by Sir Vincent Bayawa • Famous Greek physician, Father of Medicine, stressed natural causes of disease → Hippocrates • Developed geometry→ Euclid • Greek mathematician who worked on levers, pulleys, and buoyancy → Archimedes • Branch of medicine that helps cancer patients → Oncology • Abnormal growth of cells that may form a mass → Tumor • Tumor that does not spread and is not cancerous → Benign tumor • Tumor that invades tissues and spreads → Malignant tumor • Spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body → Metastasis • Substance or agent that causes cancer → Carcinogen • Treatment using drugs to kill cancer cells → Chemotherapy • Treatment using high-energy radiation to destroy cancer cells → Radiotherapy • Type of cancer that begins in the skin or tissue lining organs → Carcinoma • Type of cancer that begins in bone, muscle, or connective tissue → Sarcoma • Cancer of the blood or bone marrow → Leukemia • Change in DNA that may lead to cancer → Mutation • Lifestyle factor that increases cancer risk → Smoking • Most common cancer in women worldwide → Breast cancer • Most common cancer in men worldwide → Prostate cancer • Protected by exoskeleton → Crustaceans (Arthropods) • Outer layer made of chitin that protects arthropods → Exoskeleton • Circulatory fluid in crustaceans and other arthropods → Hemolymph • Molting (shedding of exoskeleton) in arthropods → Ecdysis • Demand for energy increased .... (Continue support for mass transport) • Plastic – artificial polymers • Basic unit (repeating structure) of polymers → Monomer • Process of linking monomers to form polymers → Polymerization • Teflon → Addition polymerization • Nylon → Condensation polymerization • Day-neutral plants – Ex. Roses • The physiological response of plants to the length of day and night → Photoperiodism • Light-sensitive pigment responsible for photoperiodism → Phytochrome • Father of bacteriology – Robert Koch • Father of marine microbiology – Certres • Father of Biology → Aristotle • Father of Botany → Theophrastus • Father of Zoology → Aristotle • Father of Medicine → Hippocrates • Father of Modern Medicine → Andreas Vesalius • Father of Modern Anatomy → Andreas Vesalius • Father of Microbiology → Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek • Father of Protozoology → Antonie van Leeuwenhoek • Father of Microscopy → Antonie van Leeuwenhoek • Father of Modern Microbiology → Louis Pasteur • Father of Virology → Martinus Beijerinck • Father of Immunology → Louis Pasteur • Father of Modern immunology → Louis Pasteur
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