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What Is the Difference Between a Peptide and a Protein?

Zoomed in photo of a pile of sugar cubes in a wooden stop on a wooden table.

What’s the Difference Between Sugar in Fruit and Sugar in Sweets and Candy?

Sunlight shining on leaves. Photosynthesis

What Does Photosynthesis Produce?

Overhead view of high protein foods: chicken, meat, spinach, eggs, nuts, bean, cheese. (nutrition, health, food, diet)

Why Is Eating Protein Important?

Various types of sugar. Organic compound. Glucose. Refined sugar, raw sugar, brown sugar, sugar cubes spoon wood

What’s the Difference Between Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar?

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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.

7 Vestigial Features of the Human Body

US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah in November 2004. Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq War.

Timeline of the 2000s

Human Cannibalism; Johannes Lerii's account of the description of the method the Indians use for "barbecuing" human flesh. Nude Indians barbecuing and eating parts of human bodies; Theodor de Bry.

Cannibalism: Cultures, Cures, Cuisine, and Calories

Space race (1957-1969) infographic between United States (U.S.) and Russia. America, Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., space exploration

Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69

Berries and leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) plant. Poisonous plant

7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants

Portrait of a mountain gorilla at a short distance. gorilla close up portrait.The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species

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Also Known As	saccharase • invertase

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sugar hydrolase proteolytic enzyme nuclease lipase lactase maltase urease hyaluronidase