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Science & Nature Essays and Term Papers
Diabetes 2Some people have a disease that requires them to take daily injections of insulin. This disease is called diabetes, and cannot be cured. But, what if a non functioning pancreatic islet cells could be made to produce insulin once again. That would cure diabetes. The possibility has set the diabetes ...
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Mitosis In Cancerous CellsMitosis, the process in which a cell undergoes nuclear division, is one of the four subdivisions of the cell cycle responsible for cell growth and reproduction. The first step in mitosis is prophase. In prophase the chromatin, diffuse in interphase, condenses into chromosomes. Each chromosome ...
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White Shark: SummaryWhat's in the water? That's the question the characters in this
book wondered too. White Shark is a story about a monster in the water
that makes Jaws look like a goldfish!
The year is 1945. There was a German U-boat that was carrying a
few of these " White Sharks". The submarine began ...
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Cardiovascular ConditioningConditioning Assignment:
can be defined as the efficient transport and utilization of necessary oxygen and nutrients to the tissues of the body. The cardiovascular system needs to be well conditioned to enable the body to deliver adequate oxygenated blood and nutrients to the working muscles, in ...
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Indicactor LabWhat is in each test-tube? What proof do I have of this?
Test-tube A: Test-tube A had water in it. I can base this on the fact that it was a neutral, reacting neither to red or blue litmus paper. Phenolphthalein also did not react to this substance. The pH value was 7, neutral, also adding to the ...
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Discoveries Of Scientists Of The "Age Of Reason"The discoveries of many scientist and great thinkers of the "Age of
Reason" have all contributed to the entire scope of how we view astronomy
today. The shift was of a less secular thesis to one based on humanism and
the Scientific Method. There were several great thinkers that led to ...
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Chinook SalmonEnvironmental Science Wednesday, February 26, 1997
Among the many kinds of fish harvested each year by commercial fisheries is the
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha or . The United States catches an
averages of about three hundred million pounds of salmon each year. However
some Chinook salmon have been ...
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Hormone Use In LivestockThere have been many recent developments in the field of hormones. One of these has been the use of hormones in livestock. Many farmers are finding it beneficial to use hormones to help stimulate the growth of their animals as well as making the meet leaner. They also use hormone injections to ...
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Cloning 7Genetic engineering, altering the inherited characteristics of an
organism in a predetermined way, by introducing into it a piece of the
genetic material of another organism. Genetic engineering offers the
hope of cures for many inherited diseases, once the problem of low
efficiencies of ...
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The Invention Of The TelegramOn January 9th, 1917 a message was sent from Germany to the German minister in Mexico. This message, later to be known as the Zimmermann Telegram was the final piece to a German plot to embroil the United States into a war with Mexico, Japan or both in order to cripple Allied supply lines fueling ...
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Aids 4AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus.
The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 30 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread primarily by female prostitutes ...
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Cirrhosis Of The LiverThe Three categories of disease are very different from one another. Communicable, Chronic and Degenerative and Hereditary and Genetic Disorders all have their own types of treatments and or cures and are all spread differently.
Communicable diseases are diseases caused by pathogens that can be ...
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Lymphomaor lymphatic cancer is a very serious and life threatening disease. In this country there is an estimated 63,900 new cases, 7,100 of which are Hodgkin’s as opposed to non-Hodgkin’s . Since around the 70’s the occurrence of non-Hodgkin’s has almost doubled while the ...
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Genetic Engineering, History And Future: Altering The Face Of ScienceScience is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate
than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew,
to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to
computer. But science, in the past, has always remained distant. It ...
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Effects Of SmokingHow would you like losing twenty-seven years of your life? Smoking cigarettes has been proven too be extremely dangerous too your health, which causes various forms of cancer and other life threatening diseases. It is found to be a very expensive habit and to be a financial problem. As if this ...
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Do UFOs Exist?I have gathered many sources and have come to the conclusion that UFOs
do exist. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but
only after 1947, have UFOs been widely discussed because of publication world
wide. Many things support this concept such as sightings, crop ...
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Galileo And NewtonGalileo believed the physical world to be bounded. He says that all
material things have "this or that shape" and are small or large in relation to
other things. He also says that material objects are either in motion or at
rest, touching or not touching some other body, and are either one in ...
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ArsenicPhosphorus (P), (As), antimony (Sb), and bismuth (Bi) form a group of four elements in Group 5A of the periodic table. They exhibit increasing metallic properties going down the group. Nitrogen (N), which heads the group, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. Phosphorus is a highly ...
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Investigation Of Reproduction And Development In AnimalsCycles, Conception and Contraception
Fertility is the condition of being fertile. The aim of contraception is to
inhibit fertility in individuals, hence, slowing population growth. The system
by which all female contraception must operate: the menstrual cycle.
What is the menstrual cycle? and ...
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Global WarmingIn 1992 the United States and nations from around the world met at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio and agreed to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The Rio Treaty was not legally binding and, because reducing emissions would likely cause great ...
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Nutrition Vs. Sport PerformanceThe world is an orb of life. In its limited space all life forms compete to hold their own position. As Darwin concluded in his theory of evolution, “only the strong and most advanced survive, while the weak perish and are pushed aside.” Evolution, the theory we use today to fuel ...
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Triceratops Hottidus: “Horrible Three-horned Face”Triceratops was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur. It walked on all four
sturdy legsand had three horns on its face long with a large bony plate
projecting from the back of its skull(a frill). One short horn above its
parrot-like beak and two longer horns (over 3 feet or 1 meter long) above
its eyes ...
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Nucular WarNuclear Weapons are explosive devices made to release nuclear energy. The first atomic bomb, which was tested on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, represented a completely new type of artificial explosive. All explosives get their power from the rapid burning or decomposition of some ...
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BulemiaChristmas is a time of joy, but the Christmas of 1988 was one of
revelation for me. My best friend of 15 years unveiled her deepest,
darkest, most private secret; she was bulimic. I was unfamiliar with the
disorder at the time, but when she told me of her 7 year struggle with
anorexia and ...
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How Mountains Are FormedMountains are formed over long periods of time by forces of the earth.
Mountains just don’t appear in any place. Most are formed when plates, or
huge pieces of the Earth’s crust, pull and push against each other. Great
mountain ranges are formed by the movement of tectonic ...
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