Blood plays vital role in the life of our body. It is a fluid that circulates through the heart and blood vessels, supplying nutritive materials to every part of the body and carrying off waste products. It is colorless fluid, plasma, in which float myriads of corpuscles. There are of three kinds: red, white and platelets. Learn More: Blood is …
Read More »How much blood can you give to others?
A blood donor can give about half a litre of blood. The blood is kept for transfusions to help save people’s lives. The body then makes more blood, but the donor should not give blood again for at least two months. Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day.
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The cigarette was the last method of taking tobacco to be developed. Previously it had been smoked in pipes and cigars, inhaled as snuff (in powder form) and chewed. Tobacco itself was brought to Europe and the rest of the world when Columbus discovered America, and it was thought to have marvelous medicinal properties. No one could be said to …
Read More »What is terminated seed technology-based bollygard seeds?
The bollygard cotton seed is suspected to have the ‘terminator seed’ technology which involves introduction of a gene that terminates the germination of the seeds after onetime usage. ‘Terminator’ is actually a name coined by the Canadian non-governmental organisation Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) for a technology that essentially controls the expression of certain genes, causing the plant to turn …
Read More »What is Mission Shakti? Name the Missile & satellite used in it?
What was the test? On March 27, 2019 India conducted Mission Shakti, an anti-satellite missile test, from the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Island launch complex. This was a technological mission carried out by DRDO. The satellite used in the mission was one of India’s existing satellites operating in lower orbit. The test was fully successful and achieved all …
Read More »Is blood the only fluid circulating in the body?
There almost 5 liters of blood in the human adult’s body. But it is not the only fluid to circulate. A substance called ‘lymph’ circulates through a network of vessels throughout the body.
Read More »How long has man been walking the Earth?
Ever since the philosopher and naturalist, Charles Darwin, and his contemporaries including Wallace, suggested that man had evolved from apes, there has been a continuous, and almost frantic quest for evidence of our ancestors. Of course, where we come from has always been a fascinating question, but it is only comparatively recently that systematic searches have been made for traces …
Read More »When water appeared on the Earth?
The first folds in the crust of the Earth took place in complete darkness, when the world still felt very hot. The Earth had cooled sufficiently to harden the rocks but its temperature was still far higher than that of boiling water. No water was to be found on the surface and all the water vapour coming from the burning …
Read More »Why are Chinese calendars based on animals?
A large percentage of the Chinese are followers of Taoism. According to Taoist belief, the Jade Emperor is the ruler of heaven, mankind and hell. It is said that the Jade Emperor decided to assign a different animal for each year, so that people could easily remember the twelve-year zodiac cycle. So he called one representative from each animal species …
Read More »क्या आप जानते हैं की हम फोन करते हुए Hello ही क्यूं कहते हैं?
हम किसी को फोन करने पर हैलो ही क्यों कहते हैं ? हम चाहे फोन रिसीव करें या कॉल करें। हमारा सबसे पहला शब्द होता है Hello! आखिर हम इसी शब्द का इस्तेमाल क्यों करते हैं? अगर ये कहा जाय कि यह किसी का नाम है तो आप सोंच में पड़ जायेंगे। लेकिन हम आपको बता दें की जी हां, यह नाम था वैज्ञानिक ग्राहम बेल की गर्लफ्रेंड का। जिसका पूरा …
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