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Change in the heritable traits of populations
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as genetic drift and natural selection act on…
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Deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double he…
Investigation of outer space
Space exploration is the physical investigation of outer space by uncrewed robotic space probes and through human spacef…
1760–1840 agrarian to industrial era shift
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes called the First Industrial Revolution in contrast to the subsequent Second Industr…
English polymath (1642–1727)
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author a…
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. …