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The Gamester (1753) by Edward Moore Study Pack: 1 eBook About 71 pages (21,300 words) in 1 product

Gamete A gamete is a sexual reproductive cell such as a sperm or an egg that must fuse with another gamete to produce a zygote, and eventually, a new organism. Gametes are typically haploid (1N), containing only half the number of the chromosomes... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 4 pages (1,162 words) in 3 products

Gametogenesis Gametogenesis is the production of haploid sex cells (in humans, ovum and spermatozoa) that each carry one-half the genetic compliment of the parents from the germ cell line of each parent. The production of ovum is termed oogenesis and th... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 5 pages (1,337 words) in 2 products

Gametophyte A gametophyte, or gamete-bearing plant, is one of the two multicellular phases that occur in alternation of generations. The gametophyte is the haploid phase; that is, its cells contain only one set of chromosomes, in contrast to the sporo... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 3 pages (824 words) in 3 products

Gamliʾel of Yavneh GAMLIʾEL OF YAVNEH, also known as Gamliʾel II, was a Palestinian tanna, rabbi, patriarch (nasiʾ), and head of the academy at Yavneh in the late first and early second century. In contrast to contemporary authorities, w... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (789 words) in 1 product

Gamma function A gamma function is the solution to a specific integral. It is useful for physical applications and has very little theoretical interest value for mathematicians. It is occasionally also related to the "error functions." Its simplest expre... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,088 words) in 2 products

Gamma ray Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, just like visible light or x rays, but with a much higher energy. The gamma ray spectrum is usually defined as light having a frequency between 1018 and 1021 Hertz. Gamma rays are more en... Study Pack: 7 Summaries About 18 pages (5,418 words) in 7 products

Gamma-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclo-hexane Gamma-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclo-hexane Overview Gamma-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane (GAM-uh one two three four five six HEK-sa-KLOR-oh-SYE-kloh-HEK-sane) exists in four isomeric forms. Isomers are two or more forms of a chemical compo... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (743 words) in 1 product

Gamma-Butyrolactone   OFFICIAL NAMES: Gamma butyrolactone (GBL), dihydro-2(3H)-furanone, 4-butanolide, 2(3H)-furanone dihydro, tetrahydro-2-furanone, butyrolactone gamma, gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), 1,4 butanediol (BD; tetramethylene glycol; SucolB), sodiu... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 33 pages (10,007 words) in 3 products

Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid   After work, Patricia White went to a birthday party for her boss. While she was leaving, a colleague named Feal offered her a cup of "water" and the only thing she could remember after that was waking up naked in Feal's bed. Patricia Whit... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Essay About 43 pages (13,025 words) in 3 products

Gamma-ray astronomy Astronomers have been observing the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum for centuries, but this is just a very small "window" to the universe, and it provides a limited view. Once the space age was established, it opened many n... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 5 pages (1,543 words) in 2 products

Gampopa SGAM PO PA (GAMPOPA). Sgam po pa Bsod nams rin chen (Gampopa Sönam Rinchen, 1079–1153), also known as Dvags po lha rje, "the doctor from Dvags po," was the figure most responsible for systematizing the doctrines... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 6 pages (1,854 words) in 2 products

Gan De fl. fourth century B.C. Chinese astronomer known for his star catalogue and his studies of sunspots. Along with Shih Shen and Wu Xien (Wu Hsien), Gan De was one of three scholars who independently developed a star catalogue that would, cen... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 3 pages (910 words) in 2 products

Elena Andreevna Gan Elena Gan entered the history of Russian literature as a talented author of society tales. In the 1830s and 1840s her novellas enjoyed great popularity, but by the end of the nineteenth century they began to be forgotten. After 1905 her wo... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,520 words) in 1 product

Gandan Lamasery Gandan lamasery, nestled in the modern city of Ulaanbatar, is the seat of Mongolian Buddhism and the largest monastery in the Mongolian People's Republic. Founded at nearly the same time as Ulaanbaatar, in the seventh century CE, Ga... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (236 words) in 1 product

Gandhi I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.". Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet. Victory a... Study Pack: 1 Quotes About 1 pages (299 words) in 1 product

The Essential Gandhi by Louis Fischer   The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas is a collection of Gandhi's writings edited by Louis Fischer. The book outlines how Gandhi became the Mahatma and introduces Gandhi's opinions on various subjec... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Summary About 159 pages (47,723 words) in 2 products

Gandhi (disambiguation) by Olivia Coolidge   The name Mahatma Gandhi is known around the world and still bears great weight some fifty plus years after his death. He influenced the likes of such humanitarians as Martin Luther King Jr. and even Albert Einstein. He will always be re... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 15 pages (4,346 words) in 3 products

Gandhi (film) by Richard Attenborough   Of all the movies that have ever been based on historical events and people, none have matched the accuracy and quality of the motion picture Gandhi. One could almost mistake the factual history of Gandhi's life as a summary of the movie pl... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 1 Essay, 1 Quotes About 44 pages (13,053 words) in 5 products

Sergei Markovich Gandlevsky Poet, prose-fiction writer, essayist, and playwright, Sergei Gandlevsky was one of the key figures of literary life in the Soviet Union and Russia during the 1980s and 1990s. His path as a poet is highly characteristic for this pivotal epo... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 22 pages (6,712 words) in 1 product

Ganesha GAṆEŚA ("lord of the group") is the elephant-headed Hindu deity. Also called Vināyaka ("leader"), Gajānana ("elephant-faced"), Gaṇādhipa ("lord of t... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 39 pages (11,747 words) in 2 products

Gang   Colors, Letters and Numbers. The three things that have been with us from infancy, to adolescence until now. No one ever thought that the symbols that were on our building blocks would symbolize what they do today. The movie Colors glorifie... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 3 Viewpoints, 5 Essays About 361 pages (108,259 words) in 11 products

Gang of Four The Gang of Four (siren bang) is the name given to the four most influential supporters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in its later stages, other than Mao Zedong (1893–1976). The group's main focus of activities was in Sh... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 5 pages (1,594 words) in 2 products

Ganges and Indus River Dolphin The Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor), known in Pakistan as the susu, is sometimes called the "blind dolphin" because its eyes lack lenses. This virtual blindness, scientists speculate, is due to the high silt content of... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 6 pages (1,881 words) in 2 products

Ganges River GANGES RIVER. The Ganges (Gaṅgā), considered the holiest of India's rivers, is 1,560 miles long. Rising at Gangotri in the Himalayas, this great river flows through the North Indian plain and into the Bay of Bengal. To... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 9 pages (2,575 words) in 3 products

Ganglion A ganglion is a cluster of neuron cell bodies which occur outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). Neurons are made up of the cell body, with dendrites to conduct nerve impulses towards it and an axon to conduct nerv... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 1 pages (313 words) in 2 products

Gangrene Gangrene is the destruction of body tissue by a bacteria called Clostridium perfringens, or a combination of streptococci and staphylococci bacteria. C. perfringens is wide-spread in soil and the intestinal tracts of humans and animals. I... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 8 pages (2,246 words) in 3 products

Gangs of New York   Bill the Butcher was the ideal "bad guy" for a movie. He was a stubborn individual who would not change his ways of thinking for anyone. If you came off a boat and tried to settle in the United States you were automatically hated by Mr. Cu... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay, 1 Quotes About 19 pages (5,784 words) in 3 products

Gangsta rap Gangsta rap is the most controversial style of the rap music genre. It has achieved global prominence through its vivid sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic lyrics, as well as its violent depiction of urban ghetto life in America. Gangsta ... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 14 pages (4,123 words) in 2 products

Gangtok (2001 pop. 29,000). The capital of Sikkim State in northeastern India, Gangtok ("top of the hill") is wedged between Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan on a long ridge flanking the Ranipul River, with breathtaking Himalayan views. It w... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 13 pages (3,770 words) in 2 products

Gangwon (2002 est. combined pop. 3.2 million). Kangwon Province, one of two provinces divided between North and South Korea, is located on the central eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula. Its combined area is 28,050 square kilometers, with 16,89... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 1 pages (270 words) in 2 products

Ganja Ganja is a Hindi word (derived from Sanskritic) for the HEMP plant, Cannabis sativa (marijuana); the term ganja entered English in the late seventeenth century. Ganja is a selected and potent preparation of MARIJUANA used for smoking. The ... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,087 words) in 2 products

Herbert J. Gans Herbert Gans was born May 7, 1927, in Cologne, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1940 and became a naturalized citizen in 1945. From 1945 to 1946, he served in the U.S.Army. In 1957, Gans received his doctorate from the Univer... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,117 words) in 2 products

Gansu (2002 est. pop. 27.1 million). Gansu (Kansu) Province is located in northern China at the upper reaches of the Huang (Yellow) River. In the west, the province borders on Qinghai and Xinjiang, in the north on Mongolia, in the east on Ningxi... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 11 pages (3,313 words) in 2 products

Jack Gantos (BookRags) A popular and prolific author of books for readers ranging from the early primary grades through high school, as well as for adults, John Gantos, Jr.--better known as Jack Gantos--is considered by many critics and readers to be both a gift... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 13 pages (3,878 words) in 1 product

Gao Xingjian   SOURCE: Chen, Xiaomei. “A Wildman Between Two Cultures: Some Paradigmatic Remarks on ‘Influence Studies.1’” Comparative Literature Studies 29, no. 4 (fall 1992): 397-416. In the following essay, Chen discusses Wildman in terms of bo... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 20 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 143 pages (42,761 words) in 22 products

Gao Xinjiang (b. 1940), Chinese writer and Nobel Laureate. Gao Xinjiang, the first Chineselanguage writer awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, in 2000, was born in 1940 in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, and grew up in a family that encouraged his ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (360 words) in 1 product

Vicente Gaos Vicente Gaos belonged to the first generation of post--Spanish Civil War poets. Although his collections of poetry were published to critical acclaim, in his later years he often appeared to be forgotten or overlooked in his native Spain. ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,151 words) in 1 product

Gaozu of Han The Chinese emperor Han Kao-tsu (ca. 247-195 BC) was the founder of the Former Han dynasty, the first major Chinese dynasty for which there are reliable and fairly full historical records. Kao-tsu is the posthumous title given to Liu Chi, ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 4 pages (1,205 words) in 2 products

Gap (clothing) The Gap casual apparel stores have become a ubiquitous fixture in malls and urban shopping districts around the world. Their high-quality, classic designs have remained wardrobe staples for youthful customers, older shoppers, and their chi... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 15 pages (4,612 words) in 2 products

Gāṇapatyas GᾹṆAPATYAS are a sect of Hindus who regard Gaṇeśa (Ganapati) as their supreme object of devotion. They view Gaṇeśa, the elephant-faced son of Śiva and Parvati, as the form of ultimate realit... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (839 words) in 1 product

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Garbage (Band) Garbage is a Scottish/American rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band members are Duke Erikson, Shirley Manson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig. Contents 1 Unsourced 1.1 Comprehension 2 Need 3 Deepness 4 Cruelty 5 Tears 6 F... Study Pack: 1 Quotes About 1 pages (265 words) in 1 product

Garbage Pail Kids This page lacks sufficient introduction or links to Wikipedia . Without such information, it is hard to distinguish this topic from similarly-named topics or to research quotations. You can help Wikiquote by adding it . Contents 1 Eliot Me... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Quotes About 4 pages (1,147 words) in 2 products

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Critical thinking by Creative Teaching Press   The process of critical thinking requires you to ask more questions of both others and of yourself before a decision or determination is made. In order to successfully evaluate data in a critical manner, you must have a system in place t... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 3 Essays About 881 pages (264,215 words) in 4 products