In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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The oldest recorded age was 122. Madame Jeanne Calment was born in France in 1875 and died in 1997. She was a vegetarian and loved olive oil, port wine, and chocolate.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Barbituric acid, the base material of barbiturates, was first synthesized in 1863 by Adolph von Bayer. His company later went on to synthesize aspirin for the first time, and Bayer aspirin is still a popular brand today.
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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
Model Organism Drosophila
Model Organism Neurospora
Inherited DNA directs development of an organism.
Biological control pits one organism against another
Multicelled organism
The phenotype of an organism is the product of interactions
