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More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Amoebae are the simplest type of protozoans, and are characterized by a feeding and dividing trophozoite stage that moves by temporary extensions called pseudopodia or false feet.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.