Vocabulary

include – включать

department – кафедра

consider – считать, рассматривать

term – семестр

opportunity – возможность

study free – учиться бесплатно

research – исследование

mean – значить, подразумевать

create – создавать

enlarge – увеличивать

conduct – проводить

exception – исключение

chromosomal inheritance theory – теория хромосомной наследственности

prohibit – запрещать

nevertheless – тем не менее

investigation – исследование

carry out – проводить

equipment – оборудование

greenhouse – теплица

performance – представление

exist – существовать

issue – выпуск; изделие; номер

Answer the questions.

1. Which year can be considered the birth year of the Biology Faculty?

2. What exams did the young people have to pass to enter the faculty?

3. When did the lessons usually take place?

4. Was education free of charge at that time?

5. What researches did teachers and students carry out?

6. When was the zoological museum founded?

7. New departments were opened in 1930s-1940s, weren’t they?

8. Teaching was conducted in the Belarusian language, wasn’t it?

9. What departments were opened in 1950s-1960s-1970s?

10. When did the Biology Faculty get a new building?

11. How many departments does the faculty include today?

12. What are they?

13. Who is the dean of the faculty?

14. What do you know about the social and cultural life of the students?

15. Are the students proud of their faculty?

I. Make up sentences using the following words and expressions.

1. the Pedagocial Faculty, in 1921, The Belarusian State University, and began its work, in 1922, was founded

2. three terms, there were, took place, and lessons, in a year, from 5 p.m., in the evening, usually, till 8 p.m.

3. to pass tests, had, students, to the next course to move up.

4. the basis and the main principles, were formed, of Belarusian science, that meant, exactly at that time, that

5. the chromosomal inheritance theory, in 1950s, was prohibited

II. Complete the following sentences.

1. Some courses were obligatory ...

2. An interesting fact is ...

3. Moreover, they began researches in new fields ...

4. Very soon the Biology faculty began to enlarge ...

5. The surprising fact is ...

6. Today the faculty includes ...

7. Concerning social and cultural life ...

8. It’s always a great pleasure ...

READING MATERIAL

TEXT A

I. Read and translate the text.

Organic Molecules

The molecules found in living organisms vary tremendously in all ways including complexity. Usually they vary from complex to more complex! A molecule of table sugar, which comes from sugar cane or sugar beets, is composed of 45 atoms: 12 of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, and 11 of oxygen. Its chemical formula is C₁₂ H₂₂ O₁₁. Starch molecules, which are found in all plants, contain thousands of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Protein molecules are often much larger still.

These large molecules are called organic molecules. All organic compounds contain carbon, in addition to other elements.

Many chemists of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centures felt it was impossible to learn much about organic compounds. They felt that these complex compounds could be made by an animal or plant but not by a chemist in his laboratory. Only after Wohler synthesized urea and Kolbe synthesized acetic acid did these beliefs change.

It was found that urea was made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in the proportions expressed by the formula CON₂H4 - a molecule of eight atoms, this is better written as CO(NH₂)₂. Аs study progressed, it became apparent that a simple formula for a compound is not always sufficient. Just аs the position of letters determines the word, so the position of atoms determines the type of molecule.

The formula CO(NH₂)₂, for urea, does not fully indicate the position of each atom relative to the other atoms. A better way of showing what we know of the makeup of the urea molecule is to use a structural formula.