562 résultats pour "betes"

• Being Brown

  eurocentriques du monde, une joie qui vient du fait d'être parfaitement centré culturellement… »   D. Writing :    Priya dislikes living in America, she thinks it is a land of inequalities. She praises Indian values that seem better according to her. Her father disagrees with her, he praises American values, and seems to be happy with all the comfort he could get in the United States.    Both sides have positive and negative aspects. First, about Priya's point of view. She is right when she says...

• laine - agriculture et agroalimentaire.

  très solides d’aspect duveteux. 4.5 Délainage Le délainage est réalisé dans une troisième filière — appareil destiné à produire des fils, généralement par étirage —, pendant laquelle on récupère la laine accrochée à lapeau des bêtes, par trempage dans de l’eau puis par sabrage (procédé visant à débarrasser les fibres des impuretés végétales ou animales, au moyen d’un tambourrecouvert de lames). On effectue ensuite un trempage, puis on fait passer les fibres dans une étuve, où elles fermentent d...

• Kafka : La Métamorphose

  La mère: Sans caractère, larmoyante et faible, elle subit les événements sans chercher à intervenir. Elle obéit au père et à safille. Elle ne cherche pas beaucoup à venir en aide à Gregor, même si elle s'interpose et sauve la vie de son filslorsque son mari s'apprête à le tuer. Le patron de Gregor (ou son représentant le fondé de pouvoir) : Le patron est le représentant de la société capitaliste. Il est peu attentif aux hommes; c'est la première fois queGregor n'est pas à son travail mais il le...

• Définition du terme: CURÉE, substantif féminin.

  la chasse, par la curée qu'on leur fait " (Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française). Par métaphore. Donner plus d'ardeur à un groupe humain par l'espoir d'une récompense : Ø 2. Alors, ramassant toutes ces passions, toutes ces ivresses, toutes ces frénésies silencieuses [de ses hommes qu'il haranguait] , Legall les mit en curée, il les énerva, les piqua, les aiguillonna. GEORGES D'ESPARBÈS, La Guerre en sabots, 1914, page 121. · Faire curée. [En parlant d'un chien] Manger la bête qu'il a prise av...

• Vocabulaire: CHASSER1, verbe transitif.

  et chassant ? grand bruit?: j'?tais s?r de mon fait. VICTOR-JOSEPH ?TIENNE, DIT DE JOUY, L'Hermite de la Chauss?e d'Antin, tome 4, 1813, page 173. ? [Le compl?ment d?signe le lieu o? se d?roule la chasse] Chasser au bois, en for?t, en plaine (Dictionnaire de l'Acad?mie Fran?aise). b) emploi absolu (supra exemple 1). ? Locution figur?e et proverbe. [Avec un compl?ment introduit par les pr?positions de, sur] ? Chasser de compagnie. Se pr?senter ensemble. L'amour et la vengeance, chass...

• Guy de Maupassant, Pierre et Jean, 1889 : incipit

  peu à peu qui annoncent un conflit au sein de cette famille. Des indices disséminés dans l'incipit laissent en effet présager des problèmes relationnels entre les différents personnages du petitgroupe, déjà placé dans l'espace fermé, confiné de la barque. La différence radicale de caractère entre Roland et sa femme nousfait deviner dès le début que ce couple, sans doute, ne s'aime pas, et Roland apparaît comme un homme naïf, aimant à êtretrompé ; ses fils lui mentent afin qu'il croie qu'il a pêc...

• Pot-bouille --Ami .

  un homme ne pouvait approcher sa soeur, sans qu'il fut aussitot inquiet, les levres retroussees, pret a mordre. Et si, au contraire, Octave se penchait vers elle librement, la faisait rire du rire tendre et mouille d'une amante heureuse, il riait d'aise lui-meme, son visage refletait un peu de leur joie sensuelle. Le pauvre etre semblait gouter l'amour dans cette chair de femme, qu'il sentait sienne, sous la poussee de l'instinct; et l'on eut dit qu'il eprouvait pour l'amant choisi la reconnaiss...

• Vocabulaire: CHASSÉ, -ÉE, participe passé, adjectif et substantif masculin.

  plume. Il chassait aux cailles dans mon pr? (PAUL-LOUIS COURIER, Pamphlets politiques, Gazette du village, 1823, page 187) : ? 2.... j'ai chass? au chevreuil, au sanglier?: je l'aurais abattu sans le roi, ? qui on laisse l'honneur du coup... RODOLPHE TOEPFFER, Nouvelles genevoises, 1839, page 394. ? [Le compl?ment d?signe l'instrument ou le proc?d? utilis? pour la chasse] Chasser au fusil, ? l'oiseau. Il chassait au tir?, ? courre, au chien d'arr?t, au chien courant, ? l'aff?t, au miroir,...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: ENFANT, substantif.

  c) En apposition ou attribut avec valeur d'adjectif. — Adjectif à valeur qualificative. Gervaise (...) entrait à peine dans sa quatorzième année, lorsqu'elle était accouchée du premier, Claude; et aucun de ses deux frères, ni Claude, ni Étienne, né plus tard, ne semblait souffrir d'une mère si enfant et d'un père gamin comme elle (ÉMILE ZOLA, La Bête humaine, 1890, page 43 ). · Par analogie. [En parlant d'un inanimé concr] Qui n'a pas atteint son plein épanouissement. Un cyprès enfant, un de ces...

• Fondements historiques du droit constitutionnel britannique TD

  constitution, it retains sufficient flexibility to allow adaptation to suit the changing circumstances of society with minimum procedural restraints. Codified/uncodified are better description than written/unwritten to better distinguish the UK constitution from that of other countries because most of the UK constitution is written but has never been codified into one single document. Yet flexibility should not be unrestrained, that is to say an ability to evolve can be constrained by existi...

• Voyage au bout de la nuit: Comment Céline dénonce-t-il la guerre dans ce passage ?

  Ce n'est que plus épris de dégout qu'il découvre la « prairie d'aout » ou la viande était distribuée et qui sous sesyeux se révèle être un nouveau champ de bataille, l'affrontement se fait ici avec des bêtes, « il y en avait pour deskilos et des kilos de tripes étalées, de gras en flocon jaune et pâles, des moutons éventrés avec leurs organes enpagaie, suintant en ruisselets ingénieux dans la verdure d'alentour, un b½uf entier sectionnés en deux, pendu àl'arbre, et sur lequel s'escrimaient enco...

• Définition et usage du mot: BOEUF, substantif masculin.

  314256 il fit tourner sur place la première paire de boeufs. — A-t-on vu! grommelait-il. Pas un compliment pour des bêtes comme les miennes! Est-ce qu'ils en ont seulement, des boeufs, les Picards! Les six boeufsse mirent en marche, à une allure de procession, et il ajouta : — Ils sontjolis, leurs boeufs de Picardie! Ça serait bon, tout au plus, pour des crèchesde Noël! RENÉ BAZIN, Le Blé qui lève, 1907, page 275. Ø 6. Le joug est une autre ruse. Par la forme du boeuf, on peut dire que l'art de...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: EH BIEN, HÉ BIEN, mot invariable.

  dénigra. — « Apprends à t'en servir! — Eh bien! Montrez- moi » (GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, Bouvard et Pécuchet, tome 1, , 1880, page 35 ). — Tu sais où il est? L'enfant fit oui. — Eh bien! Cours le chercher (ALPHONSE DE CHATEAUBRIANT, Monsieur des Lourdines, 1911, page 254 ). Remarque : En employant eh bien, le locuteur marque qu'il assume que l'interlocuteur peut ou qu'il doit accomplir l'ordre qu'il va donner. B.— [Eh bien est employé pour relier l'accomplissement d'un acte de parole à la situation de...

• Excerpt from All's Well That Ends Well - anthology.

  SECOND LORD. Do not say so. COUNTESS. Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemenI have felt so many quirks of joy and griefThat the first face of neither on the start soCan woman meun to't. Where is my son, I pray you! SECOND LORD. Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence.We met him thitherward, for thence we came,And, after some dispatch in hand at court,Thither we bend again. HELENA. Look on his letter, madam: here's my passport.(She reads the letter aloud)“When thou canst get the ring upo...

• From The Red Badge of Courage - anthology.

  The youth put forth anxious arms to assist him, but the tall soldier went firmly on as if propelled. Since the youth's arrival as a guardian for his friend, the otherwounded men had ceased to display much interest. They occupied themselves again in dragging their own tragedies toward the rear. Suddenly, as the two friends marched on, the tall soldier seemed to be overcome by a terror. His face turned to a semblance of gray paste. He clutched the youth's armand looked all about him, as if dre...

• COCTEAU Jean Maurice Eugène Clément : sa vie et son oeuvre

  -- sais ou de textes critiques (le Rappel à l'ordre, 1926; Letlre à Jacques Maritain, 1926; Une entrevue sur La critique, 1929; Opium, 1930; Essai de critique indirecte, 1932; Portraits-souvenirs, 1935; Mon premier voyage, 1937). Au théâtre, Cocteau avait déjà écrit les Mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921), Antigone (1922), Roméo et Juliette (!924); à l'époque d'Œdipe et des Parents terribles, il donne deux pièces moin§ connues, les Chevaliers de la Table ron...

• Définition du terme: COUVRIR1, verbe transitif.

  — RELIURE. Revêtir d'une reliure, à titre de protection, les plats et le dos de feuilles brochées. Il avait fait couvrir, par un humble relieur de la ville, ses exemplaires avec des feuillets d'antiphonaires (ANATOLE-FRANÇOIS THIBAULT, DIT ANATOLE FRANCE, L'Anneau d'améthyste, 1899, page 182 ). — Vieux. Couvrir le feu. Mettre de la cendre dessus pour le conserver. Après neuf heures, comme Nicole couvrait le feu (...), deux grands coups retentirent aux volets (ÉMILE ERCKMANN ET ALEXANDRE CHATRIAN...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DEBOUT, adverbe et adjectif invariable.

  — [Debout est attribut du sujet; le sujet de la locution désigne un inanimé abstrait : vue de l'esprit, propos tenus ou rapportés par quelqu'un] Tenir debout. Être acceptable, cohérent, sérieux. J'avais beau compter sur mes doigts, pas un de ces vers ne semblait tenir debout (JULIEN GREEN, Journal, 1933, page 135 ). Le plus souvent sous la forme négative. Ne pas tenir debout. Manquer de vraisemblance, de logique, de sérieux ou de réalisme. Ton histoire ne tient pas debout (MARCEL ACHARD, Jean de...

• Définition du terme: COUVRANT, -ANTE, participe présent, adjectif et substantif féminin.

  GEORGES DUHAMEL, Chronique des Pasquier, Le Jardin des bêtes sauvages, 1934, page 27. b) [Le sujet est un inanimé] S'étendre, se déployer sur une surface de manière à la recouvrir partiellement. Herbe qui couvre un terrain, mer qui couvre le sable, nappe couvrant la table. Un grand tapis d'Aubusson couvre le parquet (ANDRÉ BILLY, Introïbo, 1939, page 201) : Ø 3.... le prince Castel-Forte le prit par la main, et tirant un rideau de crêpe qui couvrait un autre tableau, il lui montra Corinne tell...

• Définition du terme: COUVERT2, substantif masculin.

  I.— [Avec l'idée dominante de superposition] A.— [Le complément désigne une chose; un complément prépositionnel de, plus rarement avec, indique ce qui sert à couvrir] Mettre quelque chose qui est distinct et séparé, mais plus ou moins ajusté, sur une surface ou sur un volume. 1. [De manière à les soustraire à la vue ou à les protéger] a) [Le sujet désigne une personne] Couvrir un lit, un mur, une paroi. Une caisse de bois fort, qu'on couvrira d'une toile cirée (Voyage de la Pérouse autour du mon...

• Définition du terme: COUVERTE, substantif féminin.

  prépositionnel de, plus rarement avec, indique ce qui sert à couvrir] Mettre quelque chose qui est distinct et séparé, mais plus ou moins ajusté, sur une surface ou sur un volume. 1. [De manière à les soustraire à la vue ou à les protéger] a) [Le sujet désigne une personne] Couvrir un lit, un mur, une paroi. Une caisse de bois fort, qu'on couvrira d'une toile cirée (Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde (MILET DE MUREAU) tome 1, 1797, page 218 ). Elle couvrit elle-même la vieille table d'un nappe...

• prenait un bain de quelques minutes.

  Les amants s’égayaient encoredecette bonne histoire ; puisMaxime continuait desavoix câline : – Quand tuvenais mechercher aucollège danstavoiture, nousdevions êtredrôles touslesdeux… Jedisparaissais soustes jupons, tantj’étais petit. – Oui, oui,balbutiait-elle, prisedefrissons, attirantlejeune homme àelle, c’était trèsbon, comme tudis… Nous nous aimions sanslesavoir, n’est-ce pas ?Moijel’ai suavant toi.L’autre jour,enrevenant duBois, j’aifrôlé tajambe, etj’ai tressailli… Maistune t’es aperçu der...

• TEXTES BAC DE FRANCAIS

  Jean de La Fontaine. Livre VII La dent d'orAssurons-nous bien du fait, avant que de nous inquiéter de la cause. Il est vrai que cette méthode est bien lentepour la plupart des gens, qui courent naturellement à la cause, et passent par-dessus la vérité du fait, mais enfinnous éviterons le ridicule d'avoir trouvé la cause de ce qui n'est point.Ce malheur arriva si plaisamment sur la fin du siècle passé à quelques savants d'Allemagne, que je ne puism'empêcher d'en parler ici.En 1593, le bru...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: LUI2, ELLE3, EUX, ELLES3, pronom personnel.

  — [comme complément d'objet second de verbes à double construction] Nous parlerons de vous ce soir avec le chancelier; ayez patience, c'est moi qui vous recommande à lui (ALFRED DE MUSSET, La Quenouille Barberine, 1840, I, 3, page 290) : Ø 2. — Quel est donc ce Valdo dont tu parles à tout propos? — Je vais te le présenter à l'instant, ou, plutôt, je vais te présenter à lui. GEORGES DUHAMEL, Le Jardin des bêtes sauvages, 1934, page 18. b) [Pour indiquer l'identité ou l'appartenance, avec le...

• Wetland.

  Other plants and animals have special adaptations suited for living in a wet environment. Most emergent plants have air spaces in their stems that enable oxygen to betransported to roots that grow in sediments with no oxygen. Some of the trees that grow in swamps form a set of roots above the soil surface or above the water thatallows them to get oxygen to the lower roots. In saltwater wetlands, specialized cells can limit the amount of salt that enters a plant, or specialized organs can excrete...

• Aging - biology.

  Different theories have been proposed to explain how SF works. One theory is based on the assumption that aging, and diseases that occur more frequently withadvancing age, are caused by structural damage to cells. This damage accumulates in tiny amounts each time the cell divides, eventually preventing the cell fromcarrying out normal functions. One cause of this damage may be free radicals, which are chemical compounds found in the environment and also generated by normal chemical reactions in...

• Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing - anthology.

  BEATRICE. Alas, he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one; so that if he havewit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonablecreature. Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. MESSENGER. Is't possible? BEATRICE. Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashio...

• Cheetah - biology.

  animals such as zebras. Unlike most cats, cheetahs hunt during the day, when lions and hyenas that compete with them for prey are less likely to be active. Still,scientists in Tanzania have observed that cheetahs lose 10 to 13 percent of their kills to lions and hyenas. Alerted by the panic of a gazelle herd or by the circling ofvultures, lions and hyenas close in and easily drive the more timid cheetah away from a fresh kill. A cheetah usually stalks prey to within about 10 m (about 33 ft) and...

• Buddhism.

  Although never actually denying the existence of the gods, Buddhism denies them any special role. Their lives in heaven are long and pleasurable, but they are in thesame predicament as other creatures, being subject eventually to death and further rebirth in lower states of existence. They are not creators of the universe or incontrol of human destiny, and Buddhism denies the value of prayer and sacrifice to them. Of the possible modes of rebirth, human existence is preferable, because thedeitie...

• Amphibian (animal) - biology.

  strong enough to kill potential predators. C Hearing, Vision, and Vocalizations Amphibians rely on their senses to find food and evade predators. Amphibians lack external ears but have well-developed internal ears. Hearing is most acute in frogs,which typically have a middle ear cavity for transferring sound vibrations from the eardrum, or tympanum, to the inner ear. Frogs and toads also use their keen hearingin communicating with one another. Using a true voice box, or larynx, and a large, exp...

• Slavery in the United States - U.

  tripled, from about 1.2 million to almost 4 million in 1860. The natural growth of the slave population meant that slavery could survive without new slave imports. Natural population growth also hastened the transition from an African to an African American slave population. By the 1770s, only about 20 percent of slaves in thecolonies were African-born, although the concentration of Africans remained higher in South Carolina and Georgia. After 1808 the proportion of African-born slavesbecame tin...

• Cloning - biology.

  found that such embryo cells are totipotent (able to give rise to all the different cell types in the body). Exploiting this characteristic, scientists developed three techniques to clone embryo cells: blastomere separation, blastocyst division, and somatic cell nuclear transfer. A Blastomere Separation In blastomere separation, scientists fertilize an egg cell with a sperm cell in a laboratory dish. The resulting embryo is allowed to divide until it forms a mass of aboutfour cells. Scientist...

• English Literature I INTRODUCTION English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.

  evident. That feature is typical of other Old English literature, for almost all of what survives was preserved by monastic copyists. Most of it was actually composed byreligious writers after the early conversion of the people from their faith in the older Germanic divinities. Sacred legend and story were reduced to verse in poems resembling Beowulf in form. At first such verse was rendered in the somewhat simple, stark style of the poems of Caedmon, a humble man of the late 7th century who w...

• Excerpt from A Christmas Carol - anthology.

  External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snowwas more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet,could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often “came down” handsomely and Scrooge never did. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with g...

• Fire - chemistry.

  were usually natural caves. Eventually people learned to dip branches in pitch to form torches. They created crude lamps by filling a hollowed out piece of stone withmoss soaked in oil or tallow (a substance derived from animal fat). By cooking with fire, prehistoric people made the meat of the animals they killed more palatable and digestible. They learned to preserve meat by smoking it over a fire,vastly decreasing the danger of periodic starvation. Cooking also enabled them to add some for...

• Automobile Racing.

  beginning in 1906 at Le Mans it came to refer to the principal F1 auto race in a given nation, except in the United States, where the term continues to be used lessdiscriminately. After the end of World War I in 1918, when automobile racing blossomed internationally, a series of GP races in several nations became reserved for F1competition, and an annual GP calendar was developed consisting of national races, such as the French Grand Prix and the British Grand Prix. An annual award calledthe Wor...

• Ethiopia - country.

  constitute about 6 percent of the population. The Somali, who live in the east and southeast, notably in the Ogadēn region, are about equal in number to the Shangalla.The Denakil inhabit the semidesert plains east of the highlands. The nonindigenous population includes Yemenis, Indians, Armenians, and Greeks. B Political Divisions Ethiopia is divided into nine regions composed of specific ethnic groups. The regions, which have a significant degree of autonomy, are Tigray; Afar; Amhara; Oromia;S...

• Globalization.

  higher living standard for their people. The World Bank made loans to developing countries for dams and other electrical-generating plants, harbor facilities, and otherlarge projects. These projects were intended to lower costs for private businesses and to attract investors. Beginning in 1968 the World Bank focused on low-cost loansfor health, education, and other basic needs of the world’s poor. B International Monetary Fund The IMF makes loans so that countries can maintain the value of thei...

• Andrew Jackson.

  against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...

• Andrew Jackson

  against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...

• Andrew Jackson - USA History.

  against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...

• Television.

  A charge-coupled device (CCD) can be much smaller than a camera tube and is much more durable. As a result, cameras with CCDs are more compact and portablethan those using a camera tube. The image they create is less vulnerable to distortion and is therefore clearer. In a CCD, the light from a scene strikes an array ofphotodiodes arranged on a silicon chip. Photodiodes are devices that conduct electricity when they are struck by light; they send this electricity to tiny capacitors. Thecapacitors...

• Lebanon (country) - country.

  during the civil war. Within the country, thousands of Shia Muslim refugees fled fighting in southern Lebanon in the 1990s and moved into shantytowns in Beirut’ssouthern suburbs. Lebanon’s major cities were greatly affected by the civil war. Beirut has gradually regained most of its prewar population and remains the country’s largest city. Tripoli,the northern port, is the second largest city. Jūniyah, north of Beirut, was developed as a wartime port and subsequently had a population boom. Za ḩl...

• Geographic Exploration.

  The commercial reason for exploration has been a consistent driving force. In 1492 the great navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Oceanseeking a new, shorter, and cheaper route to reach the riches of East Asia, and Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama circumnavigated Africa for much the same reason.Yet similar investigations of the profitable eastern trade had already been made by Arab sailors. Arab trading ships were sailing from the Arabian Sea to southeasternAsia probab...

• Geographic Exploration - explorer.

  The commercial reason for exploration has been a consistent driving force. In 1492 the great navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Oceanseeking a new, shorter, and cheaper route to reach the riches of East Asia, and Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama circumnavigated Africa for much the same reason.Yet similar investigations of the profitable eastern trade had already been made by Arab sailors. Arab trading ships were sailing from the Arabian Sea to southeasternAsia probab...

• Theodore Roosevelt.

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Theodore Roosevelt

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Advertising.

  Advertising agencies make money in a variety of ways. When the agency uses the client’s advertising budget to buy time for an ad on the radio or on television or whenit buys space for an ad in a newspaper or magazine, the media outlet allows the agency to keep 15 percent of the cost of the space or the time as a commission. The15 percent commission has become an advertising industry standard and usually accounts for the largest portion of the agency’s income. Agencies also charge clientsfor the...

• Evolution - biology.

  genetic diversity to extinction. Sexual reproduction ensures that the genes in a population are rearranged in each generation, a process termed recombination. Although the combinations of genes inindividuals change with each new generation, the gene frequency, or ratio of different alleles in the entire population, remains relatively constant if no evolutionaryforces act on the population. One such force is the introduction of new genes into the genetic material of the population, or gene pool...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...