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POLLINATORS IN PERIL

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  Summer is a wonderful time of the year. The birds are singing, bees are buzzing and the pleasant aroma of flowers wafts the air. One of the main factors of this pleasant weather are the organisms known as pollinators present in our environment. Pollinators, such as birds, bees, butterflies, bats, small mammals, etc., visit flowers to drink nectar and feed off of their pollen and transport the grains from one plant to another so as to start pollination. This allows the plant to reproduce and form seeds, berries, fruits and other plant food and is the beginning of a massive food chain. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce. Pollinating animals travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their bodies in a vital interaction that allows the transfer of genetic material critical to the reproductive system of most flowering plants Pollinators assist with reproducing over 80% of the world’s flowering plants. 5% of the world’s...

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO KNOW ABOUT MANUSCRIPTS

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As time goes on, our world is passing through revolution in the field of technology. Nowadays we have various forms of sources to document our achievements and life stories in. But did the humans have any sources of documentation before modern civilization? Yes, they did. During earlier times, the humans were continuously contributing their knowledge, power and ideas to invent tools and sources in any way whatsoever so as to upgrade the human civilization.   Humans were known to be especially exceedingly advanced in intellectual activities during the ancient and medieval periods. In order to maintain records, they had used various sources such as stones, copperplates, birch bark, palm leaves, parchments and paper. One such source for documentation is manuscripts. The word ‘manuscript’ is derived from the Medieval Latin term ‘manuscriptum’ that means hand written documents. A manuscript is a handwritten composition on paper, bark, cloth, metal, palm leaf or any other material da...