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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.
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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Atropine, along with scopolamine and hyoscyamine, is found in the Datura stramonium plant, which gives hallucinogenic effects and is also known as locoweed.
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
Invasive species in Canada include (a) zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, (b) sea lamprey, Petromy
The early stages of the human life cycle.
The human mesencephalon (midbrain).
Cross-section of a human molar
Sensory receptors in human skin.
Chromosome Number in Selected Animal Species