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GCSE English Literature · key term
The scientific explanation that microorganisms can cause infectious disease.
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Paper 1
The theory that microorganisms entering the body can cause infectious disease.
Revise: ContextBy the end of the nineteenth century, germ theory was established, giving Wells a scientific basis for the invaders’ defeat.
The theory that microorganisms infecting the body can cause disease.
Either question: integrate Darwin, Huxley or germ theory only where the context helps explain the particular moment and argument.
Link Darwin, Huxley or germ theory to a particular moment and explain how that context shapes its meaning.
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Component 2
Revise: ContextGerm theory explains that microorganisms can cause infectious disease. Louis Pasteur’s work from the late 1850s, followed by Robert Koch’s work in the 1880s, helped establish this explanation during Wells’s lifetime. Invisible organisms could now be understood as agents with enormous consequences.
