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What causes the Bubonic Plague and how deadly is it? The Bubonic plague is a disease of the lymphatic system caused from the bite of an infected flea. The fleas are ... Read more..Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Astronomy | No Comments »
No one person is considered to have discovered Mars. As it is very bright in the night sky, it has been visible since the first humans gazed up to the ... Read more..Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Biology | No Comments »
At birth, the genes that make the pigment protein are not being read by the cell (they are turned off). Almost all babies have blue eyes because the iris has ... Read more..Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Animal Life, Biology | No Comments »
The shortest known gestation period is 12 to 13 days. This record is shared by three marsupials, which is kind of an unfair comparison to all other mammals as in ... Read more..Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Animal Life | 1 Comment »
While this question is often debated, the land snake commonly believed to have the most lethal poison in the world is the inland taipan. They primarily live in the arid ... Read more..Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Posted in Biology, General Science | 1 Comment »
The mitochondrian was first identified at the end of the 19th century by a German pathologist and histologist (tissue researcher) named Richard Altmann. It was given the name "mitochondria" by ... Read more..