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- Ovary (3278 bytes)
7: ...ne functioning ovary; [[snake]]s have two, one in front of the other.
9: ...zation]] by [[sperm]]. A fertilized egg resulting from union with a sperm becomes a [[zygote]] and the...
11: [[image:female_anatomy_frontal.png|right|thumb|250px|Internal reproductive ...
15: ...gnancy]] will result. If the egg fails to release from the follicle in the ovary an [[ovarian cyst]] m...
21: ...ter [[pollination]], the ovary will grow into the fruit, while the ovule(s) become the seed(s). Some w... - Arm (7276 bytes)
15: ...of the pectoralis major runs downward and outward from the inner half of the [[clavicle]]. The clavicu...
21: ...e traced into its [[tendon]] of insertion, in the front of the elbow joint.
29: ... perform most daily tasks with a range of flexion from 30 degrees to 70 degrees. Secondly, the head of...
33: ...ce of these two the median vein comes up from the front of the [[forearm]], while the two vertical lim...
34: ...the artery when workers were injured and bleeding from the median basilic vein. Beyond the middle of ... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
50: ...y [[South Carolina]] met the Spanish moving north from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was firs...
58: ...Georgia|Louisville]] (''pron.'' Lewis-ville), and from [[1806]] through the [[American Civil War]] at ...
62: ...ce of any state in the Union. For over 130 years, from 1872 to 2003, Georgians only elected Democratic...
68: ...tution mandates a maximum of 56 Senators, elected from single-member districts, and a minimum of 180 R...
74: ...ter [[Button Gwinnett]], one of the [[delegate]]s from Georgia who signed the [[U.S. Declaration of In... - Mitochondrion (10103 bytes)
8: [[image:mitochondrion.png|frame|'''Cross-section of a mitochondrion, showing:'...
9: ...e-shaped organelle pictured to the right, ranging from 1 to 4 [[Micrometre|?m]] in length. At the othe...
20: ...e mitochondrion. Large molecules, however, cannot traverse the outer membrane. The inner membrane does not c...
51: ...heir physical tendency (in the "wrong" direction) from the matrix into the intermembrane space.
53: ...e complex can make [[Adenosine triphosphate|ATP]] from ADP and inorganic phosphate (P<sub>i</sub>). Th... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ...ake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mea...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], ...
55: ...Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [...
68: ...appointed by the U.S. President who selected them from eighteen persons chosen by the people. The Coun...
71: *[[1837]] Admitted as a free state into the union (the 26th state), it was a... - Knee (3925 bytes)
6: ...ior thigh muscles, and the patellar groove on the front of the [[femur]] through which it slides. The...
9: ... The critically important ACL prevents the tibia from being pushed too far forward relative to the fe...
14: ...oint which serve to protect the ends of the bones from rubbing on each other and to effectively deepen...
17: ...gaments and menisci, along with the muscles which traverse the joint, prevent movement beyond the knee's int... - Helicopter (20080 bytes)
1: ...wing aircraft</b>. The word helicopter is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''helix'' (s...
23: ...tail rotor is sufficient to cancel out the torque fromt the main rotor, the helicopter will not rotate...
29: ... amount of power required to prevent a helicopter from spinning is significant. A tail rotor can use u...
42: ...the RPM is too high, damage to the main rotor hub from excessive forces could result. In general, RPM ...
44: ... The cyclic is usually controlled by the stick in front of the pilot. - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
6: Inspired by [[Fridtjof Nansen]]'s crossing of [[Greenland]] in [[1...
10: ... [[Frederick Cook]]. Cook probably saved the crew from [[scurvy]], an important lesson for Amundsen's ...
12: ... to spend two winters exploring over land and ice from the place today called [[Gjoa Haven, Nunavut|Gj...
14: ...tic survival skills and soon adopted their dress. From them he learned to use [[sled dog]]s. Continuin...
18: ...d his plans. Using [[Fridtjof Nansen]]'s ship ''[[Fram]]'' ("Forward") he set out for Antarctica inste... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...Salt Lake]]. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in [[1870]] makin...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove...
31: ...jor construction projects were initiated. Local [[freeway]]s were expanded and repaired and a [[light ... - Optic nerve (5184 bytes)
2: ...s the [[nerve]] that transmits visual information from the [[retina]] to the [[brain]].
5: ...nerve to nine primary visual nuclei in the brain, from whence a major relay inputs into the [[primary ...
7: ...yed to the visual cortex. Its diameter increases from about 1.6 mm within the eye, to 3.5 mm in the o...
9: ...e occipital lobe, and fibers carrying information from the contralateral inferior visual field termina...
22: ...three most common injuries to the optic nerve are from glaucoma, optic neuritis (especially in those y... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
8: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
14: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
18: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
20: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Earthworms (15728 bytes)
18: ...]] and [[arid]] [[climate]]s. They range in size from two centimeters (less than one inch) to over th...
20: ...s. These other families are often very different from the lumbricids in [[behavior]], [[physiology]] ...
24: ... have 5 pairs of hearts. The blood is distributed from the ventral vessel into capillaries on the body...
27: ...um, the external glandular band which is near the front of the worm, but behind the spermathecae. Som...
51: ...stigations in the [[United States|USA]] show that fresh earthworm casts are 5 times richer in availabl... - Spectacled Bear (3239 bytes)
15: ...has depended mostly on their fantastic ability to traverse even the highest trees of the [[Andes]] Amazonian...
21: ...inctive urge to climb trees, rocks and cliffsides from birth as the inordinately protective mother tea...
24: Although the bears tend to isolate themselves from one another to avoid competition, they are non-...
28: [[Image:specbear.jpg|frame|Spectacle Bear's Cub]] - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
7: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
13: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
17: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
19: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Sawfish (fish) (7208 bytes)
22: Their name comes from the Greek word "pristis", for '[[saw]]'.
28: ...ks) and intruding divers. The "teeth" protruding from the rostrum are not real [[teeth]], but modifie...
39: Sawfishes can range anywhere from 1.4 metres (Queensland Sawfish or Dwarf Sawfish...
43: ...d in [[tropical]] and [[sub-tropical]] areas, and frequently swim far into [[rivers]]. They are also ...
47: ...ll sawfishes have the ability to traverse between fresh and saltwater, and often do so. - Spinning mule (12067 bytes)
2: ...0s. The mule was the most common spinning machine from 1790 until about 1900 and was still used for fi...
6: * pressure to compete with cotton [[calico]]s from India.
9: Two systems were developed from the spinning wheel: the [[Spinning wheel|Simple...
11: ...perceived threat to their livelihood: there were frame-breaking riots and, in 1811-3, the [[Luddism]]...
13: ...finer and stronger yarn. The [[ring spinning|ring frame]], originating in New England in the 1820s was... - Taurus (constellation) (2696 bytes)
17: ...th)|Minotaur]]. As such, since it is necessary to traverse the area of sky known as the [[Sea (astronomy)|Se...
20: ...ical zodiac]] ([[April 20]] - [[May 20]]) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu as... - Tetrapod (26290 bytes)
28: ...describing the earliest tetrapods, which radiated from the [[Sarcopterygii]], or "lobe-finned" [[fish]...
33: ...the late Devonian, land [[plant]]s had stabilized freshwater habitats, allowing the first [[wetland]] ...
35: ...itus]]. The universal tetrapod characteristics of front [[limb]]s that bend backward at the [[elbow]] ...
37: The evolution of the air-breathing [[lung]] from the primitive [[swim bladder]] of lobe-finned f...
39: ...ely from lower [[jaw]] material. All of them were from the European-North American [[supercontinent]] ... - Hubbard Glacier (2407 bytes)
5: ...rts believe will eventually dam the Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay waters.
13: ...amatically so that ships must keep their distance from it as they ply their way up and down the coast. - Inclined plane (3213 bytes)
12: ...wagon. This same techique is used today in modern freeways which travel through steep [[mountain pass]...
27: ...ane is 90 degrees ([[rectangle]]) the object will free fall.
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