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Future I Simple will Will future expresses a spontaneous decision, an assumption with regard to the future or an action in the future that cannot be influenced. Forms

Passive Voice Use Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known; however, who or what is performing the action.

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Genetic

Genetics - What are Genes? Inside every cell of each living thing (plant or animal) are sets of instructions called genes. The genes provide the instructions on what is the plant or animal, what it looks like, how it is to survive, and how it will interact with its surrounding environment. The genes are strung together in long stands of material called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and these long strands are called chromosomes. Most living things have pairs of chromosomes (one from each parent), though they may have a different number of chromosomes from another living thing. For example, humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes and the fruit fly has 4 pairs. Each gene is made up of long combinations of four different nucleotide bases. It is the various combinations of the nucleotide bases that determine everything about a living creature. The four nucleotides are called:

adenine(A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T).

Word Definitions

Dominant - a gene in one strand of DNA that is stronger than the corresponding gene in another strand of DNA. Recessive - a gene in one strand of DNA that is weaker than the corresponding gene in another strand of DNA. Trait - a distinguishing feature in a person.

DNA

DNA is one of the largest known molecules. If you think of one molecule of sugar, a DNA molecule is weighs 100,000 times more than that. In normal weight (the way we normally think of things), a DNA molecule is actually very light. Even one quintillion DNA molecules weigh three ounces! DNA molecules are cramped tightly inside the cells that hold them because if they were completely straight they would be several thousand times the length of the cell! DNA consists of two long thin strands that are wound around each other to form a spiral. This is called a double helix (check your dictionary for this term!). The strands of a double helix are made up of a large amount of chemical building blocks called bases. Every strand of DNA contains about twelve billion individual bases. Since there are four different types of bases, A, G, C, and T, various sequences of different arrangements of bases can occur. The strands of a helix are held together by weak chemical bond between nearby strands. The G base will only pair up with the C base and the A base will only pair up with the T base (for example, C can't pair with a G base). So, if you put it all together, you have DNA. Chromosomes What exactly are chromosomes? Well, Now that you know what DNA does, you may be wondering how these traits pass down to generation to generation. Well, the truth is that they are passed down through the cells. In animals and plants, the DNA forms "chains" inside the nucleus of the cell. Then they coil up to form nothing else but...a chromosome! Every person and type of animal have a certain number of chromosomes. If youre curious, an insect like a mosquito has 6, and a plant like a cabbage has 18. Humans have 46. The DNA that is contained in 23 of them is passed on by your father to you before you are born. Then the DNA that is contained in another 23 chromosomes is passed on to you by your mother. So, guess why you have 46 chromosomes? Because of this: 23 + 23 = 46! So, once all chromosomes are in your body, you have half of your father's traits, and half of your mother's traits. Now you know how you inherit your mother's black or blond hair, or your dad's blue eyes. So, you think you understand? Well, then maybe you can try to test yourself on our QUIZ section! You can also see the GLOSSARY section for some important words dealing with genetics. Well, guess what? Were DONE with this lesson!

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its fortyeight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.

The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific.

With about 309 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest both by land area and population. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.4 trillion (a quarter of nominal global GDP and a fifth of global GDP at purchasing power parity). Main facts about USA Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico Main Industries : petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining Agricultural products: wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products, forest products, fish.

Most Important American Presidents Of the 43 men who have been president of the United States, there are some truly clear choices of who were the most important and influential presidents. There were also many who would never have made the list. This was a tough list to create - especially once we move past the 7th president. If one more could be added it would be Ronald Reagan. He helped bring the Cold

War to an end after years of struggle. He definitely gets an honorable mention for this list of influential presidents.

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisesthe American Civil Warpreserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. Lincoln explained in his second inaugural address: "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came." An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were "blasted from all sides": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death. Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's death was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning. Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as one of the greatest U.S. presidents.

Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. across from the Washington Monument.

The architect was Henry Bacon, the sculptor of the primary statue Abraham Lincoln, 1920 was Daniel Chester French, and the painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin. Dedicated in 1922, it is one of several monuments built to honor an American president because he freed the slaves and saved our nation during the Civil War. The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address. The memorial has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963 during the rally at the end of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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