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Dictionary » F » Factories Factories1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. The Company's factory at Madras. 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. 3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. (Science: medicine) factory leg, a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.
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Results from our forumRe:... black pigment allele were quickly eaten by birds. And the moths remained white even during the industrial era in places where there were no factories. But they turned black in the industrial areas, and this was noticed around halfway to the 19th century in England. It was well-documented ...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine in China... the quality and supply of crude drugs, more than 600 production bases and 13,000 farms have been set up. There are more than 800 pharmaceutical factories of Chinese drugs with annual production over 400,000 tons in more than 5,000 varieties. Universities and colleges in China are providing degree ...
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Alas the creationists are right though...... because of the soot in the environment - and this trait would instantly became useless when humans installed proper pollution filters to their factories. But developing that dark colour was not random, even though the needed mutations were so. Natural selection simply "chose" the ...
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Where do we go from here?... Then us humans would upkeep and maintain manufacturing plants for these technical devices bit like termites and some ants upkeep their fungus factories and we would be inseparable: machines and humans - just like termites and mould, algae and fungi, and so on! :)
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Common Organisms as Biomarkers and Bioindicators... branches of trees (especially spruces) and are very dsitinctive in old forests. These lichens also often disappear close to industrial areas and factories, and slowly re-appear if the levels of air pollution decrease. Here is an example of the organism in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usnea_2_%282005_07_19%29.jpg ...
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