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DNA consists of a sequence of four bases that you only need to know in order to understand them. However, it is not quite as simple as that. For example, the packaging of the genetic material obviously also plays a major role, as only what is unpacked can be read. We have understood this packaging a little better since the work of Lithuanian-born Aaron Klug, who developed a microscopy method and was promptly awarded the Nobel Prize for it in 1982.

The Facts

Population 2,872,000 [1]
Area 62,610 km² [2]
Gross domestic product per capita in US-Dollar 27,026.0 [3]
Public expenditure on education (share of GDP) 4.0 % [4]
Share of female researchers 49.5 %
Universities 40
Universities per 1 million inhabitants 13.80
Students 111,768
Expenditure on Research and Development (share of GDP) 0.9 (share of GDP) [5]

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  1. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/litauen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  2. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/litauen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  3. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/litauen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  4. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/litauen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  5. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/litauen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

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Curonian Spit
‘The giantess filled her apron with fine sand and hurried away through the water. But the apron string tore and the sand slid into the sea under her long strides, forming the Curonian Spit,’ is how Wilhelm von Humboldt retold the legend. The Curonian Spit is a sandbar 0.4 to 3.8 kilometres wide and 98 […]
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