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Salt And Its Uses
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... blood pressure experience no
change at all when placed in a extremely low salt diet, or later when salt was
introduced, Of the hypertensive subjects, half of those on the low salt diet did
experience a drop in blood pressure, which returned to its previous leel when
salt was introduced.
Of course, these are other researcherswhgich tend to support the
findings. A small Indiana study showed that when normal individuals took large
amount of salt, the bolld pressure did not consistenly rise into the
hypertensive range. Also, study in Israel showed that a low-calorie diet could
reduce blood p ...
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The Origin Of Life
Number of Words: 1419 / Number of Pages: 6
... and many, many books have been written debating the issue.
Let us look at the three theories in depth. The evolutionist theory made known by Charles Darwin, states that humans came from his theory “survival of the fittest.” Charles Darwin based his theory on individual chances that determined the fate of the species. “Charles Darwin as we recall based his explanation of natural selection among individuals with equal chances of survival upon the following principles. The phenomenon of species change results from the fact that in each generation those individuals are chosen or selected out whose physical ...
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Genetically Engineered Foods
Number of Words: 2016 / Number of Pages: 8
... to cut specific genes from DNA and to build customized DNA using these genes. They also learned about vectors, strands of DNA like viruses, which can infect a cell and insert themselves into its DNA. Scientists started to build vectors, which incorporated genes of their choosing and used vectors to insert these genes into the DNA of living organisms. Genetic engineers believe that they can improve the foods we eat by doing this. At first glance, this might look exciting to some people. Deeper consideration reveals some advantages and serious dangers.
What are the advantages of Genetically Engin ...
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Satellites
Number of Words: 757 / Number of Pages: 3
... October 1954 the Committee for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), announced to other countries that they were considering launching small satellite vehicles for space exploration. In April and again in July 1955 the USSR and the U.S. announced plans to launch for the IGY. The USSR launched SPUTNIK 1 on Oct. 4, 1957, and the United States launched EXPLORER 1 on Jan. 31, 1958. These two provided a lot of information for further work on .
Emphasis was first placed on to measure the characteristics of the new space environment and for the design of communications, weather, and navigation and ...
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Memory Debate For Psychology
Number of Words: 888 / Number of Pages: 4
... can also be effortful processing; although we encode an enormous amount of information
unintentionally, many other types of information we remember only with much effort, rehearsal, and attention. We can forget things because of encoding failure. Sometimes we fail to encode information, so it never entered the memory system, short-term or long-term memory. A vast amount of what we sense, we never notice or process without encoding effortful process. We also may forget things as a result of retrieval failure, sometimes information gets in our brains and even if we know it is there, we simply ...
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Hydroponics
Number of Words: 1002 / Number of Pages: 4
... come by.
During this experiment we'll be looking for which plant life well do
best with hydroponics, by measuring which plant has grown the highest or
bushiest. We also well be looking for green and healthy looking leaves on the
plants. We have no idea what the results might be, so this should be an exciting
experiment.
Problem
Which form of plant life will thrive the most in a hydroponics
enrichment. Will it be Tomatoes our fruit, Peas our vegetable, Tinkerbell
flowers, or Beans a legume?
First we selected a suitable PVC pipe and cut it into a 4 foot long
piece. Next we cut four holes into the ...
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Fusion 2
Number of Words: 2677 / Number of Pages: 10
... matter, distinct from the solid, liquid, and gaseous states. When energy is continuously applied to a solid, it first melts, then it vaporizes, and finally electrons are removed from some of the neutral gas atoms and molecules to yield a mixture of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons, while overall neutral charge density is maintained. When a significant portion of the gas has been ionized, its properties will be altered so substantially that little resemblance to solids, liquids, and gases remains. A plasma is unique in the way in which it interacts with itself with electric ...
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An End To Genetic Diseases
Number of Words: 4314 / Number of Pages: 16
... many genetic diseases have been allowed to survive. In nature, these diseases would not have survived to the extent that they do now. Advances in science and medicine have allowed these problems to thrive. Further advances in science may be able to terminate genetic diseases through cloning.
Genetic problems have plagued the United States for centuries. Genetic diseases and mutations are more prevalent in today's world than ever before, due to advances in medicine (CHMG). Charles Darwin's theory of evolution stated that only the strong survive (Lutz 10). Modern medicine has changed that theo ...
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Pluto
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... which converts to negative three
hundred sixty nine and negative three hundred eighty nine degrees
farenhiet.Its extremely frigid tempetures are due to its obvious distance
from the sun.Its atmosphere consists of nothing more than methane.Plutos
thin atmosphere also contributes greatly to its extremely low atmospheric
pressure only one hundred times weaker than that of Earth's. Its surface
is made of very rocky material which is believed to be caused by the low
tempeture, and atmospheric pressure.
Pluto has only one natural satellite named Charon.Not so much as
satellite a duplicate of Pluto its dia ...
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Daltons Atomic Theory
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... first suggested more that 2000 years before Dalton's birth. (Newton's speculations about atoms in the Principia were carefully copied by hand into Dalton's notebooks.)
Atoms of an element cannot be created, destroyed, broken into smaller parts or transformed into atoms of another element. Dalton based this hypothesis on the law of conservation of mass and on centuries of experimental evidence.
Some of the details of Dalton's original atomic theory are now known to be incorrect. But the core concepts of the theory (that chemical reactions can be explained by the union and separation of atoms, and th ...
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