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Robert Hooke, a 17th-century philosopher and scientist.

He was the first to use the word "cell" to describe a basic unit of life.

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According to Boyle's Law, at constant temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.

So, doubling the pressure will halve the volume.

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The Mutation theory was proposed by Hugo de Vries.

Hugo Marie de Vries was a botanist from the Netherlands.

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John McCarthy is recognized as the father of Artificial Intelligence due to his astounding contribution in the field of Computer Science.

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist

Note: Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Computer science, which aims to create intelligent machines so that machine can think intelligently in the same manner as a human does.

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Symbol of mercury: Hg

Atomic number: 80

Boiling Point: 356.7 C

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• Structure of DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953.
• They discovered the double-helix structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography data.
• Their discovery revealed the double-helix structure of DNA, where two complementary strands are twisted together with sugar and phosphate molecules, and the nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine) pair in a specific manner.

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Genetic abnormalities are conditions caused by changes to the genes or chromosomes

A medical procedure used in the prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities, sex determination, and fetal infections is known as Amniocentesis.

Amniocentesis is a test you may be offered during pregnancy

Amniocentesis done before week 14 of pregnancy might lead to more complications.

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 Morphology in Biology  Study of the form and structure of animals and plants

The field of morphology was developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790) and independently by the German anatomist and physiologist Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800).

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Morphology in linguists deals with the Study of the formation of words.

The term was first used in linguistics by August Schleicher in 1859

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The earth`s spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbital plane.

This is what causes the seasons. 

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Zoology, branch of biology that studies the members of the animal kingdom and animal life in general.