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The common feature of the words is that they all contain the letters A, N and D in order.

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The common feature of the words is that they all contain the letters A, N and D in order.

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1 february 1944 - DNA identified as the hereditary agent in a virus.

Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty announced that DNA was the hereditary agent in a virus that would transform a virus from a harmless to a pathogenic version. This study was a ey wor in modern !acteriology.

1952 - Roger Yonchien Tsien as born.

Sierra Blakely Tsien is an Chinese American !iochemist who shares the "##$ No!el %ri&e in Chemistry with Osamu 'himomura and Martin Chalfie for their discovery of the green fluorescent protein. The green fluorescent protein is a protein that glows !right green in the presence of !lue light and found in Aequorea victoria (ellyfish.

19!2 - "irst hand-he#d scientific ca#cu#ator introduced.

Hewlett Packard Museum The first hand)held, electronic scientific calculator was introduced !y *ewlett %ac ard. The *%)+, calculator had more than the !asic four operations. -t could perform trigonometrical, e.ponential, and logarithmic functions with a single press of a !utton.
3 February

19$4 - "irst hu%an baby born fro% e%bryo transfer.


The first transfer of an em!ryo from one human to another was !orn. This procedure was directed !y Dr. /ohn 0uster at the 1CLA Medical Center. This research has given new options to people to !ecome parents who couldn2t !efore.

19&& - '.(. #aunches first %eteoro#ogica# sate##ite.

NASA The first meteorological satellite, 3''A)4 is launched from Cape Canaveral. -t provided photographs of cloud)cover to the National Meteorological Center to aid in analysis and forecasting. This was the first of nine satellites in the 3nvironmental 'cience 'ervices Administration 'atellite program.

19&& - (oviets %a)e first soft #anding on the *oon.

NASA The unmanned 'oviet pro!e, Luna 5 made the first soft landing on the Moon. This was also the first soft landing of a man)made o!(ect on another celestial !ody. Luna 5 immediately !egan transmitting data !ac to 3arth, !ut had to wait for more favora!le conditions !efore transmitting photographs of the surface.

How much Earth weighs

Genetically modified plants grow plastic


%lants have !een used for centuries as medicines < now genetically modified plants can produce plastic, s in tissue agents and human !lood proteins. 0iotechnologists have created genetically modified @AMB plants that can grow plastic. They managed this !y inserting C genes from a plastic)producing !acteria into varieties of oilseed rape @3urasian plantB and cress. Conventional plastics are made from oil and do not degrade easily, !ut the plant plastic is !iodegrada!le. 0ut it is e.pensive, at this costing five times more than petroleum)derived plastic. 0TD, the word plastic comes from the Aree plasti os, meaning 9to form: or 9to shape.: Money doesn8t grow on trees !ut one day, perhaps, credit cards will? /enetic engineering Actually, man has !een 9genetically modifying: everything from food to dogs for many centuries, !ut in the past the only tool has !een selective !reeding. There are a variety of ways that scientists now modify plants and animals with genetic engineering techniEues. Ta)e good care of your 0#ants -n the meantime, !efore you grow your own plastic plants, ta e good care of your real plants. Clean them often, spea to them, and play them some nice music < there is a lot of research that shows that playing melodic or classical music to plants ma e them grow healthier.

-nspired !y -saac Newton theory of gravity *enry Cavendish first discussed the possi!ility to esta!lish the weight of earth in a letter to his friend /ohn Michell in 46$+. Michell proposed using a torsion !alance to measure the tiny gravitational pull !etween metal spheres, an e.periment also carried out !y 7rench physicist Charles Augustin de Coulom!. -n 4656, Cavendish used Michell8s apparatus to 9weigh the earth,: pu!lishing his first results the ne.t year. *ow much does mother 3arth weigh; & se+ti##ion, &-.uinti##ion tons < that is two =s, followed !y twenty &eros> =,=##,###,###,###,###,###,### tons? And 3arth is pic ing up weight too, pac ing an e.tra 4##,### pounds every year from dust and meteoric material, residue of !urning fuel, and from salt from ocean spray. %erhaps no wonder 3arth is slowing down.

The powerful machine inside you


Four heart !eats 4#4,### times a day. During your lifetime it will !eat a!out + !illion times and pump a!out $## million pints @+6$ million litresB of !lood. A normal heart !eats 6# to $# times a minute. Over 6# to $# years, it gives a few !illion !eats. -t is the 0o erfu# %achine inside you. A heart consists of two pumps, each made of two cham!ers. The right atrium sEuirts o.ygen)depleted !lood from the !ody into the right ventricle, which pumps it to the lungs. The left atrium sEuirts aerated !lood from the lungs into the left ventricle, which pumps it out to the !ody. Dith each heart!eat, the two small atria contract together, then the two large ventricles, ma ing the !eating sound. A typical athlete8s heart churns out = to $ gallons @", to +# litresB of !lood per minute. -n comparison, the !est man) made heart can pump a!out ".= gallons @4# litresB per minute and lasts for a!out "## million !eats < or a!out , years. A heart is difficult to imitate !ecause it is a soft, wet, contractile muscle < unli e any technology developed thus far. A man)made heart is a !attery)powered motor that either drives a piston, or drives a fan !lade that sits immersed in a hydraulic fluid, moving a rotary valve. A good man)made heart, it seems, is hard to find. Ta e good care of your heart and it will ta e good care of you> 4# simple steps toward a healthy heart.

Human eye detects sound

The human eye can detect millions of colors and is sensitive to light and sounds. Fes, sound. 1niversity research studies show that mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. According to David Louis8s !oo of 7ascinating 7acts, it is !elieved that this is why surgeons, watchma ers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so !othered !y uninvited noise> the sounds cause their pupils to change focus and !lur their vision. The 9millions of colors: that the eye can detect are the three primary colors of red, green and !lue and the millions of com!inations that result from these three colors. @-n 4$6$, 3wald *ering proposed the theory that the four uniEue hues of red, green, !lue, and yellow form the !asis of all colors.B The eye is, of course, (ust a lens for the !rain. Fou actually see with your !rain.

What mathematical symbol can be placed between 5 and 9, to get a number greater than 5 and smaller than 9? decimal point 5.9

The Ball
*ow can you throw a !all as hard as you can and have it come !ac to you, even if it doesn2t !ounce off anything; There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it !ac to you.
Throw the ball straight up in the air. It is uite interesting that all numbers can be created by using only two numerals ! " and #.

Hidden Countries Word Puzzle


In each o$ the sentences below, the names o$ two countries are hidden. For e%ample, the sentence& "Interpol and the FBI track down hidden marksmen" conceals the names '()*+, and ,-+.*/0. 1ee i$ you can $ind all twenty hidden countries. 1. ladimir and !lga are "o#iet names. $. Ha#e you e#er heard an animal tal% in dialect& '. The children put on galoshes to go out in the rain. (. E)tra tuition will help an amateur to impro#e his painting.

*. +n the ,nited -ations we denounce the wholesale .an on atomic weapons /. 0ash decisions may lead to trou.le so thorough analysis is re1uired. 2. The %ing and 1ueen eat .rea%fast and lunch in a fine palace. 3. "uch a display could .e either really grand or rather disappointing. 4. Gi#e the dog a .one and gi#e him a little water. 15. +f an iron pipe rusts you 6ust ha#e to shrug and accept it.
1 (Iran and Vietnam)2(malta, india)3(tonga, Togo)4(panama, spain) (!weden, "e#anon)$ ("esotho, %hana)&('hina, (epal))(chad, *ndorra) +(ga#on, mali)1,(per-, .ganda)

Ta e the letters 1R/R2. %ut three letters in front of it, and the same three letters !ehind to form a common 3nglish word. @undergroundB

Dhat num!er gives the same result when it is added to 4., as when it is multiplied !y 4.,; +

Dhat do the words !elow have in common; ADA* 34A5* /A44 6'2Y "2ND RA*7

Dhich of the following words is the odd)one)out; 565( 5618 2RY8 (59A :16'

-!is is !ird, others mammals ant

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