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  2. Common Era - Wikipedia

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    Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era. The two ...

  3. Timeline of biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    The historical application of biotechnology throughout time is provided below in chronological order.. These discoveries, inventions and modifications are evidence of the application of biotechnology since before the common era and describe notable events in the research, development and regulation of biotechnology.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    BCE and CE or BC and AD are written in upper case, unspaced, without a full stop (period), and separated from the numeric year by a space (5 BC, not 5BC). It is advisable to use a non-breaking space. AD appears before or after a year (AD 106, 106 AD); BCE, CE, and BC always appear after (106 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC).

  5. Timeline of biology and organic chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Part of a series on Biology Science of life Index Outline Glossary History (timeline) Key components Cell theory Ecosystem Evolution Phylogeny Properties of life Adaptation Energy processing Growth Order Regulation Reproduction Response to environment Domains and Kingdoms of life Archaea Bacteria Eukarya (Animals, Fungi, Plants, Protists) Branches Abiogenesis Aerobiology Agronomy Agrostology ...

  6. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1789: Antoine Lavoisier: law of conservation of mass, basis for chemistry, and the beginning of modern chemistry. 1796: Georges Cuvier: Establishes extinction as a fact. 1796: Edward Jenner: smallpox historical accounting. 1796: Hanaoka Seishū: develops general anaesthesia. 1800: Alessandro Volta: discovers electrochemical series and invents ...

  7. Calendar era - Wikipedia

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    A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. [1] For example, the current year is numbered 2025 in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).

  8. Timeline of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.

  9. List of science magazines - Wikipedia

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    Science magazines are read by non-scientists and scientists who want accessible information on fields outside their specialization. Articles in science magazines are sometimes republished or summarized by the general press. Horisont is the oldest continuously published general science magazine in Estonia. Cover image from 1967.