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Also called the French past perfect, or plus que parfait in French, the pluperfect is a tense which is used to describe an action which happened in reference to another action in the past. For example: we...

À l'heure d'aujourd'hui, les réseaux sociaux représentent une part importante dans la vie de chacun. En effet, cette popularité, bien que représentant souvent un effet de mode, est due à de nombreux facte...

Mitosis takes place after interphase in which the DNA in the nucleus replicates in preparation for the cell to become two daughter cells. Prophase is the first stage wherein the duplicated DNA chromosomes...

Lipids are broken down by lipases into glycerol and fatty acids.
Bile, made in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, facilitates this process by emulsifying fats into smaller droplets. This incr...

Saltatory conduction is the term used to describe the propagation (a widely and quickly spreading phenomenon) of an action potential down the axon of a myelinated neuron, from one node of ranvier to the n...