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Antony van Leeuwenhoek's Tiny Discoveries In the 17th century, Dutch scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek used a homemade microscope to discover microorganisms, including bacteria and protozoa.
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The Theory of Spontaneous Generation For centuries, people believed in spontaneous generation, the idea that life could arise spontaneously from non-living matter.
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Lamarck's Theory of Inheritance Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, suggesting that traits acquired during an organism's
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Vestigial Organs Charles Darwin's theory of evolution included the concept of vestigial organs—body parts with no apparent function in modern organisms.include the human appendix
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Discovery of DNA's Structure While James Watson and Francis Crick are widely credited with discovering the double helix structure of DNA, it was Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography
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The Case of Phineas Gage In the 19th century, a railway worker named Phineas Gage survived a severe brain injury when an iron rod was accidentally driven through his skull
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The First Synthetic Life Form In 2010, geneticist Craig Venter and his team created the world's first synthetic life form, nicknamed "Synthia.
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The Great Emu War In Australia in 1932, a group of farmers and soldiers waged war against emus, large flightless birds, because they were damaging crops. The emus proved difficult to defeat
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The Mysterious Case of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman, unknowingly contributed to scientific research when her cancer cells were used without her consent to create the HeLa cell line.
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The Origin of Dinosaur The word "dinosaur" was coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842. It comes from the Greek words "deinos" (terrible) and "sauros" (lizard), reflecting the awe-inspiring nature of these ancient reptiles.
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