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Genetic Cloning
Number of Words: 1303 / Number of Pages: 5
... currently cloning is very “Hit or Miss”(Hawley). From 277 attempts, Dolly was the only successful attempt. The point is however that we now have a man created sheep, what else could be done in the near future.
There are many different goals for . Would you like to clone someone close to you who had died? In the movie “Gattaca” you get a peak at something that could be made possible by cloning, the genetic engineering of children not yet born. It could be the end of birth defects. If given the choice to be able to make a child perfectly healthy and have the traits you want in your child, would ...
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Desert Biome
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... while Death Valley, Calif., comes close with 134o F (56.7o C). "(Genius book of world records 2000) Winters are cold in middle-latitude deserts, located far from the equator. "At Luktchin in central Asia the average temperature in July is 90o F (32o C), while the January average is 13o F (-10.6o C)--a range of 77 Fahrenheit degrees (42.6 Celsius degrees)"(Compton's Encyclopedia). The temperature drops sharply in the desert night. Dry air, cloudless skies, and bare, dry earth furnish ideal conditions for the cooling of air after sunset. A 24-hour range of 25 to 45 Fahrenheit degrees (14 to 25 Celsius d ...
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Atomic Bombs
Number of Words: 1302 / Number of Pages: 5
... 141). Here they designed to bombs that were later called “The Fat Man” and “The Little Boy”. There was later a movie named after the two bombs that showed how they were made and the
experiences that came with making them. A worker was killed during the final stages of the Manhattan Project when a critical assembly of fissile material was accidentally brought together by hand. This incident, which was dramatized in “Fat Man and Little Boy”, pre-dated remote-control assembly of such components, but the hazards of manual
assembly were known at the time (U.S. Nuclear Accidents, Internet). Only 9 mon ...
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A Balloon And Science
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... or motion. This means the rocket balloon won't start until you let go of the closing (hole). It wont stop until it runs out of air or something is in the way of its' path. The second law of motion is: The acceleration of an object increases as the amount of force causing the acceleration increases. This means the more air in the balloon the farther and faster it goes. The third law of motion is: For every action force there is an equal and opposite reaction force. This means, if you let go of the balloon, something would slow or stop it eventually. The balloon slows down when it starts running ...
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Oxygen
Number of Words: 2741 / Number of Pages: 10
... essential in the processes of respiration and metabolism, the means by which animals derive the energy needed to sustain life. Furthermore, is the most abundant element at the surface of the Earth. In combined form it is found in ores, earth’s, rocks, and gemstones, as well as in all living organisms.
is a gaseous chemical element in Group VA of the periodic table. The chemical symbol for atomic is O, its atomic number is 8, and its atomic weight is 15.9994. Elemental is known principally in the gaseous form as the diatomic molecule, which makes up 20.95% of the volume of dry air. Diatomic is colo ...
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Salt Water Can Support An Electrical Current
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... increases with increasing temperature of the solvent. In general, molecules that are structurally similar to the molecules of the solvent have the highest solubility. When a solute is added to a solvent, several physical properties of the solvent change. Its boiling point rises and its freezing point lowers with increasing concentrations of solute.
Solutions are similar to other types of mixtures known as colloids and suspensions. Colloids are mixtures of tiny particles of one substance, called the dispersed phase, suspended in another substance, called the dispersion medium. The particles a ...
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Pesticides
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... it is estimated that the food supply would reduce by forty to fifty percent without the use of on our crops. The FDA, EPA, and the Department of Agriculture try to ensure that the use of is necessary to the extent in which they actually are used by performing studies and proposing bills and laws to Congress. There is no dispute that are harmful. The purpose of is to kill certain fungi, plants, and even animals, so it seems only natural that they would have some effect on humans as well. An example of how these societies have helped to try and lessen the use of the more harmful is the Pesticid ...
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Define A Concept : Astrology
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... cycles on which these interactions are based.
In some ways, the forces between the planets involved in Astrology can be simplified into one word : gravity. The Sun has the greatest gravity and, therefore, the strongest affect on Astrology, followed by the Moon and the other planets.
Astrology can be best understood as a philosophy that helpsd to explain life, rather than simply a tool used to predict one’s future or fate. Each of the twelve Star Signs is a unique combination of one of the four Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water) and one of the three Qualities (Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutabl ...
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Nuclear Energy 2
Number of Words: 2921 / Number of Pages: 11
... altitude of sixty meters. You can hear ripping, rending, wrenching, screeching, scraping, tearing sounds of a vast machine breaking apart. L. Ray Silver, a leading author who covered the disaster at Chernobyl, said that within the core, steam reacts with zirconium to produce that first explosive in nature’s arsenal, hydrogen. Near-molten fuel fragments shatter nearly incandescent graphite, torching chunks of it, exploding the hydrogen. The explosion breaks every pipe in the building rocking it with such power that the building is split into sections (11-13). You look down at your body and notice ...
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Global Warming
Number of Words: 2521 / Number of Pages: 10
... gases and global
temperature relative to time and with respect to each other is presented here to
demonstrate the relations among these factors.
POPULATION GROWTH
Many of us have seen linear graphs of human population showing the enormous
growth in the last two centuries. However, significant changes in population
dynamics are lost in the exponential growth and long time scales. If the data
are replotted on a log-population by log-time scale, significant population
dynamics emerge. First, it is apparent that population growth has occurred in
three surges and second, that the time between surges has ...
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