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Types Of Land Features
Number of Words: 2108 / Number of Pages: 8
... animals. Animals such as raccoons, skunks, foxes, voles, and mice are very common in the deciduous forests. Amphibians are just as common such as frogs, toads, and salamanders.
Threats to this biome are happening more frequently. Acid rain and air pollution is threatening plants and animals. Deer population has become a bigger threat over the last decade. Because the deer have not enough predators to the area, their size is over growing. Tree bark is being striped from the tree and wild flowers are being eaten in large quantities. Due to the hunting seasons and hunting being illegal in parks ...
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Development Of Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 2239 / Number of Pages: 9
... jungle to a young boy and it was in this environment of learned eccentricity and an unforced seeking of knowledge that Darwin's fascination for natural history and biology began." (D 6) However, growing up in the family home of Dr. Robert Darwin, was not exactly the most pleasant aspect of young Charles Darwin's life.
After the death of his mother, Charles had become rather listless and buried himself in his work or in the pursuits of wealthy youth. The time after the loss of him mother was a wasted period spent in an institution which did not foster nor nurture the scientist we know of as Cha ...
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Genetic Faltering
Number of Words: 1793 / Number of Pages: 7
... of E.coli bacteria called SV40. (Tagliaferro 69) This was the public beginning to the struggle surrounding genetics. Berg was not very intelligent about the way he conducted his tests, and he was forced to stop, until the National Institute of Health determined that SV40 was harmless to humans. (Tagliaferro 70)
The next major happening in genetics was the Asilomar Conference of 1973. The Asilomar conference was a good start, but it did not set strict enough standards for experimentation, and this caused many harsh, and disruptive experiments. Then in 1975, the second Asilomar conference was held. ...
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Historic Model Of Science
Number of Words: 673 / Number of Pages: 3
... the breakdown of the religious-infested societies that plagued the world.
This became very important to everyone involved, which proved to be more people than expected. The ‘heroic model’ was an opening for scientist and others to express their opinions without the fear of being ostracized and labeled as a blasphemer. These people were no longer look down upon as sinners, against God and religion, yet they were praised for bring truth and secularity to the world. “Facts” no longer were infested or influenced by religion, the truth was the real truth. “It replaced t ...
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The Space Shuttle
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... the seventh, whose crew included the first U.S.
woman astronaut, Sally K. Ride; the ninth mission, November 28-December 8, 1983,
which carried the first of the European Space Agency's Spacelabs; the 11th
mission, April 7-13, 1984, during which a satellite was retrieved, repaired, and
redeployed; and the 14th mission, November 8-14, 1984, when two expensive
malfunctioning satellites were retrieved and returned to earth.
Despite such successes, the shuttle program was falling behind in its planned
launch program, was increasingly being used for military tests, and was meeting
stiff competition from th ...
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Project Mercury
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... Colonel John H.
Glenn, Jr.; and Navy Lieutenant commanders Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Alan B.
Shepard, Jr. Of these, all flew in Project Mercury except Deke Slayton who was
grounded for medical reasons. He later became an American crewmember of the
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
The Mercury module was a bell shaped craft. Its base measured exactly
74.5 inches wide and it was nine feet tall. For its boosters NASA chose two U.S.
military rockets: the Army’s Redstone, which provided 78,000 pounds of thrust,
was used for suborbital flights, and the Air Force Atlas, providing 360,000
pounds of ...
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Genetic Engineering, History And Future
Number of Words: 2972 / Number of Pages: 11
... forth, the blanket of fear covering this remarkable technical miracle can be lifted.
The first step to understanding genetic engineering, and embracing its possibilities for society, is to obtain a rough knowledge base of its history and method. The basis for altering the evolutionary process is dependant on the understanding of how individuals pass on characteristics to their offspring. Genetics achieved its first foothold on the secrets of nature's evolutionary process when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel developed the first "laws of heredity." Using these laws, scientists studied the c ...
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Melissa Virus
Number of Words: 298 / Number of Pages: 2
... e-mail address book and sends an infected message to the first 50 entries. Although the virus apparently causes no permanent damage to a computer, its clogging affects were far-reaching. All new Microsoft Word documents created on an infected computer will contain the virus, too. Our own computer lab has posted a warning stating if a you receive a mail docoument the says, "Here is that document you asked for ... don't show it to anyone else" with a winking smiley face formed by the punctuation marks ;-) that you don't open it and to delete it right away. A copy cat virus named, "Papa,'' appea ...
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What Are The Major Components Of Biological Membranes And How Do They Contribute To Membrane Function?.
Number of Words: 2565 / Number of Pages: 10
... functions that depend upon the cell type, such as
conveyance of an action potential in neurones. However, despite the diversity of
function, the structure of membranes is remarkably similar.
All membranes are composed of lipid, protein and carbohydrate, but it is
the ratio of these components that varies. For example the protein component may
be as high as 80% in Erythrocytes, and as low as 18% in myelinated neurones.
Alternately, the lipid component may be as high as 80% in myelinated neurones,
and as low as 15% in skeletal muscle fibres.
The initial model for membrane structure ...
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The Forever Moving Land
Number of Words: 2829 / Number of Pages: 11
... 2900 km. thick, which lies above a layer of molten
magma that still exists today. The immense heat from the magma (approximately
2700(C) causes convection in the mantle (Figure 1). Convection is caused by
non-uniform temperature in a fluid and density differences. This continuous
convection is the cause of plate movement. Each complete cycle, called a
convection cell, drives the plate in the direction of the cell. How does a
'solid' mantle move? The mantle may be solid but, as with most solids, it will
deform if long term stress is applied; "...like Silly Putty which seeps into
the rug when left ...
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