Mutations A mutation is a type of change that happens in our DNA sequence. Some of the most common mutations are‚ a duplication where a body part is copied one or more times. Some more common mutations are a deletion where the number of DNA bases are changed‚ and another common mutation is an insertion where more DNA bases are added. A nucleotide mutation repeats short DNA sequences a number of times in a row. A substitution is where one or more bases in the DNA sequence is replaced by the same number
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small Russian town of Kalinovka. As a young man he worked as a metalworker‚ before he joined the Bolsheviks in 1998. He moved up the party ranks rather quickly and became one of Stalin’s trusted advisors. In 1938‚ Khrushchev was sent to govern Ukraine and he served as a commissar during World War II. After Stalin’s death in 1953‚ there was a struggle for power and in 1956 Khrushchev’s "Secret Speech" was published. In the speech Khrushchev stated that he did not agree with the Great Purge even
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Peter the Great was one of Russia’s greatest reformers‚ statesmen‚ organizers‚ and leaders. Russia was less developed than other European countries at that time because Russia had rejected Westernization. To rectify this‚ he went to many ways to modernize and westernize Russia. He founded St. Petersburg as a major Russian port city in the west. He also established it as the new capital‚ based on trade with the rest of Europe. New buildings and institutions were built there to modernize Russia‚ before
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Arabia created the petrodollar. What Is the Petrodollar? It is a mechanism that was put into place whereby nothing in the way of trade in the Western or capitalist economic system could be bought or sold unless it was purchased with American dollars‚ especially sales of oil. It could only be sold and purchased in American dollars. Petrodollars. This system gave America an unchallenged position in the capitalistic world. The Americans promised and gave military backing to the house of Saud and
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The Russian Revolution was a time of change. It completely changed the world with the fall of the autocracy and the monarch ruling without question and the first ever communist state. Through the use of ideology‚ the Bolsheviks could achieve their goal without the use of violence. The people involved would each play a key role in the revolution. The events that led up to the resulting violence at the end of the revolution were also very important to consider. The events towards the end of the revolution
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basis‚ but for the town of Prypiat in the Ukraine it is a barren wasteland because of it. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster was the worst nuclear catastrophe to have ever occurred and‚ is a perfect example of what can happen when the blind and unmasked furry of atomic power is left unharnessed. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is near the town of Prypiat‚ Ukraine‚ 18 km northwest of the city of Chernobyl‚ 16 km from the border of Ukraine and Belarus‚ and about 110 km north of Kyiv
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Operation Bagration: The “Unknown” D-Day At the Tehran Conference‚ the first World War II conference amongst the Big Three: the Soviet Union‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom the final plan to defeat Nazi Germany was agreed upon in unison. As promised at the Tehran Conference at the end of 1943‚ as the United States revealed the date for their Western offense‚ the Red Army began planning a powerful offensive to coincide with it. Operation Bagration‚ the main summer offensive of 1944
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export partners were China‚ Russia‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Romania‚ France and Turkey. Kazakhstan’s imports in 2009 were worth $25.15 billion‚ and its top import commodities included food‚ metal products‚ etc. Its primary import partners were Russia‚ China‚ Ukraine and
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with stimulus packages and government subsidies for companies that cut hours for workers‚ and she trying to help Greece revive its economy. She has used her power against ISIS‚ breaking the Nazi by sending arms to Kurdish fighters. In the Russia-Ukraine crisis‚ she has been engaging in shuttle diplomacy trying to broker a peace deal with Vladimir Putin.
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cause acid rain. It can also make the water dirty and air unhealthy as it creates metric tons of pollutants each day! As for the use of nuclear energy‚ we have seen the catastrophes brought about by the accidents in the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Ukraine and Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan. Most definitely‚ we cannot afford another similar
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