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Viruses bacteriophages: structure and description
Viruses bacteriophages: structure and description

This article, like a 5th grade biology report on bacteriophage viruses, will help the reader learn basic information about these extracellular life forms. Here we will consider their taxonomic location, features of the structure and life, manifestation of themselves when interacting with bacteria, etc

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Josef Kramer - "Belsen beast". Biography, work in concentration camps and photos
Josef Kramer - "Belsen beast". Biography, work in concentration camps and photos

This article will focus on whose hands killed thousands of innocent people before and during World War II. This is Josef Kramer, the commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, whom the prisoners nicknamed the “Belsen beast” for his bitterness

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  • Why does a person need language? Materials for writing-reasoning
    Why does a person need language? Materials for writing-reasoning

    Sometimes we don't think about the simplest things: they exist and that's it, and everyone uses them automatically. Here, for example, why does a person need a language (but not the one that is in the mouth, but the one we speak)? After all, if you look: it is one of the main characteristics that distinguishes us from the animal world. And perhaps, if speech had not arisen, people would still be at the lowest level of development. So, why does a person need a language? Let's try and sort this issue out

  • Queen Victoria: The Woman Who Named an Era
    Queen Victoria: The Woman Who Named an Era

    The article is dedicated to the iconic figure - Queen Victoria of Britain. Not every monarch manages to leave behind such a memory as this woman. When historians talk about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, they call the country Victorian England, and the very period of time from 1837 to 1901, during which Queen Victoria ruled, is called the Victorian era

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Shuttle "Challenger" (photo). Shuttle Challenger disaster
Shuttle "Challenger" (photo). Shuttle Challenger disaster

Space - airless space, the temperature in which is up to -270°С. In such an aggressive environment, a person cannot survive, so astronauts always risk their lives, rushing into the unknown blackness of the universe. In the process of exploring space, there have been many catastrophes that have claimed dozens of lives. One of such tragic milestones in the history of astronautics was the death of the Challenger shuttle, which resulted in the death of all crew members

  • The structure and classification of human muscles

    Classification of muscles is carried out according to various criteria: position in the human body, shape, direction of fibers, functions, relation to joints, etc

  • Function of mimic muscles. Features of the structure of the muscles of the face

    Together with the bones, the muscles are the backbone of the body. In our body, they are present everywhere, even on the head. What muscles exist? What is the main function of facial muscles? Learn more about it further

  • Andreas Vesalius: biography and contribution to medicine (photo)

    Today we will talk about such a great scientist as Andreas Vesalius. You will find a photo and biography of him in this article. If you can consider someone the father of anatomy, then, of course, Vesalius. This is a naturalist, creator and founder of modern anatomy. He was one of the first to study the human body through autopsy. It is from him that all later achievements in anatomy originate

  • The sun is The only star in the solar system

    The sun is the center of our planetary system, its main element, without which there would be neither the Earth nor life on it. People have been observing the star since ancient times. Since then, our knowledge of the luminary has expanded significantly, enriched with numerous information about the movement, internal structure and nature of this cosmic object