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Genetic Engineering And Its Future Impacts On Society
Number of Words: 1731 / Number of Pages: 7
... thousands of human lives. Of course if you value the life of a mouse over a human then you would see differently. Some fear that this science is too powerful, granted we shouldn't let just anyone be able to modify bacteria, or the human genome, but we shouldn't let our fears blind us to the possible benefits of wide-scale genetic engineering.
Medical uses for this technology are virtually endless. With genetics we can filter out any genetic defect, no more down-syndrome, mal-deformed limbs, hereditary cancer, or any other hereditary diseases. With Genetics we can also re-engineer virus to kill other vi ...
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Adaptions In Ectothermic And Endothermic Animals To Extreme
Number of Words: 1466 / Number of Pages: 6
... level (usually around 40„aC in mammals) then the enzyme rate inside the body will go into sharp decline. This is because enzymes are proteins, and become denatured. One of the first organs to be affected is the brain. Since the brain controls breathing and the circulation, the rise in body temperature disrupts the normal functioning of these important systems.
If the body temperature decreases dramatically (hypothermia) then this will slow metabolic activity and impairs brain function.
Here is a graph to show the relationship between the body temperature and environmental temperature for a cat ( ...
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Down Syndrome 3
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... an extra piece of chromosome 21 attached to a different chromosome. The second, called mosaic Down syndrome, results when only some cells in the body have the extra chromosome. There is no cure for Down syndrome although prenatal tests are available to identify fetuses with the disorder.
Down syndrome can be diagnosed just by looking at the baby at birth. The facial features and characteristics can tell you that. If the attending physician suspects Down syndrome, a karyotype – a blood or tissue sample stained to show chromosomes grouped by size, number, and shape – will be performed to verify the ...
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Recognizing Laboratory Safety
Number of Words: 342 / Number of Pages: 2
... The symbol that looks like a duck means that you will be working with live
animals.
Analysis and Conclusion:
1. The person is not wearing safety goggles and he isn't really paying close
attention. Safety goggles are vital when you are working with fire.
2. She is pointing the vial towards herself. Whenever you are working with
heating liquids, the vial should never pointing towards you.
3. The person is heating a liquid with a top on the beaker. Whenever you are
heating a substance, there should never be a top on the liquid.
4. The lady is drinking out of the beaker. You should never do th ...
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Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis Farrakhan
Number of Words: 1930 / Number of Pages: 8
... and incorporating his own brand of hatred against whites and other racial or religious or special interest groups.
This essay will examine some of the events that form part of the foundation of his philosophy, will examine essays written about Farrakhan by prominent academics, civil libertarians, and modern day economists, writers. Who is Louis Farrakhan, what does he preach, and why? This essay will attempt to shed some light on these questions, and as well Black radicalism itself.
Farrakhan was born the child of West Indian immigrants in the Bronx in 1933. He was born Louis Eugene Walcott ...
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Fishes
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... system, which increases the surface area and lengthens the time food is digested in the unusually short intestine system of a shark. Sharks sexually reproduce. Unlike a shark, rays have flattened bodies so they can hide themselves in the sand at the bottom of any shallow water area and wait for a meal. Rays also have a whiplike tail for defense and jaws, which it uses to crush mollusks and crustaceans.
Class Osterrichhthyes has the most separate species of any vertebrate class. Unlike their oceanic cosines Bony fish have a skeleton made from calcium phosphate and a slimy skin covered by bony armorl ...
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Manic Depression
Number of Words: 331 / Number of Pages: 2
... illness, so a person usually has more than one episode. These episodes can last from weeks to months. They occur whenever and have no certain pattern. Sometimes a stressful life event can trigger an episode, and sometimes they just happen. If a person has more than four episodes a year they are
known as “rapid cyclers”. This is more common in women.
There is no exact reason for what causes , but some doctors say that it may be from imbalances of certain kinds of brain chemicals. Heredity also has a little part to do with it. is treatable though. Medication, such as lithium can be ...
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Greenhouse Gases And Consequences
Number of Words: 1452 / Number of Pages: 6
... trap the sun's heat, warming the planet sufficiently for life to exist. There is, however, one problem: human activity has dramatically increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Over the last two centuries the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has increased quite significantly, mainly as a result of burning fossil fuels for industrial purposes. For example, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased from 280-285 parts per million in 1800 to 350 parts per million today. Currently the concentration of CO2 is rising by 0.4% per year. Methane has increa ...
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Computer Programming
Number of Words: 1229 / Number of Pages: 5
... are involved in updating, repairing, modifying and expanding existing programs. They are often grouped into two types. These two types are Applications programmers and Systems programmers. Applications programmers usually are oriented towards business, engineering, or science. They write software to handle specific jobs within an organization such as a program used in a place of business were a lot of inventory is being taken. They may also work alone to revise existing packaged software. Systems programmers, on the other hand, maintain and control the use of computer systems software. These ...
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Technology And Education
Number of Words: 1308 / Number of Pages: 5
... and critical thing sills, enhanced learning in core academic subjects, produce higher quality work and have even provided more one-on one time between teachers and students (THE Journal 16).
Technology is an integral component of learning. Being that students learn at different rates, technology can individualize instruction. They can move at an appropriate pace providing a solid foundation of basic skills. Computer based technologies can administer individualized lesson sequences that branch and remediate according to student's unique needs, quickly and automatically track progress ...
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