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Discovery Medical Essays and Term Papers
The Human Cloning ControversyWhat is cloning and a clone? The dictionary says cloning is the technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism. A clone is all descendants derived asexually (having no sex or sexual organs; sexless) from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, by fission , by mitosis , ...
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The Ebola VirusINTRODUCTION
The most deadly killers on this earth are too small to see with the
naked eye. These microscopic predators are viruses. In my report, I will
answer many basic questions concerning one of the fastest killing viruses, the
Ebola virus. Questions such as "How does it infect its ...
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Down Syndrome 4Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality. It is the most frequent
form of mental retardation and is characterised by well-defined, distinctive
phenotypic features and natural history. An error in cell development results
in forty-seven chromosomes rather than the usual forty-six. There are ...
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AIDSis defined as a disease, at least moderately predictive of defects in cell-meditated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease. Such diseases include Kaposi's Sarcoma, Pneumocystiscarnii pneumonia, and serious other opportunistic infections. ...
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A Review Of Huxley's Brave New WorldBrave New World (1932) is one of the most insidious works of literature
ever written.
An exaggeration?
Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false
symbol for any regime of universal happiness.
So how does Huxley turn a future where we're all notionally ...
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Louis Pasteur 3Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dôle, a small town in France. He grew in a humble family and his father was a tanner. He graduated in 1840 from the College of Arts at Besancon and entered the prestigious Ecole Namale Supervieure, Paris, to work for his doctorate degree. ...
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AlcatrazThe name is derived from the Spanish "Alcatraces." In 1775, the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala was the first to sail into what is now known as San Francisco Bay - his expedition mapped the bay, and named one of the three islands Alcatraces; over time, the name was Anglicized to . While the ...
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Genetic Engineering 3Science is a creature that continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate. The transformation from tree shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time for the transformation time from an analytical machine, to a calculator, to a computer. However, science, in the past, has always remained distant. ...
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The Dangerous Opportunity: Community Based, Crisis InterventionIntroduction:.............................................p. 1
A Definition of Crisis Intervention:......................p. 1
Historical Perspectives...................................p. 4
Classifications of Emotional Crisis.......................p. 5
Characteristics of the Crisis ...
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The Positive Effects Of DDTIn the United States, the media has a tendency to report only the
negative details of everything. Such was the case in the late 1960’s and
early 1970’s when the pesticide DDT was investigated and eventually
prohibited. Most of the claims against DDT remain unproved to this day.
There were three ...
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Alcohol An Issue Within CollegAlcohol: An Issue within College Society
Do you remember graduating high school? Remember all the questions you had to ask yourself. What are you going to do now? Do you want to work? Do you want to go to school again for another four years? These questions are eventually answered and some choose ...
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Sigmund FreudThe brain, an organ we all have. It is an organ whose power can overcome any challenge. The brain holds what we know as the human unconscious mind. This is a place filled with mysteries and contradictions. It is almost impossible to regard a person's brain without an involuntary tingle of ...
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The Life And Times Of The ManAlexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Alexander Graham Bell is remembered today as the inventor of the telephone, but he was also an outstanding teacher of the deaf and a prolific inventor of other devices. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a family of speech educators. His father, Melville ...
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Ed GeinYou could never image how many e-mails I get from people saying "Did you know the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is true" or "A friend of a friend was in jail with the real LEATHERFACE". Who ever thought of putting that intro at the beginning of TCM with the narration of John Larroquette forever engraved ...
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Animal RightsA controversial debate exists between animal rights advocates and scientific researchers regarding animal rights and the use of live animals when conducting biomedical research. Tom Regan, a philosopher who considers himself to be an advocate of animal rights, argues in The Case for Animal Rights ...
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Regional Geography Of Great Britain NotesBritish people are descended mainly from the varied['ve?r?d] ethnic stocks that settled in Great Britain before the eleventh century. Prehistoric, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Normans. In prehistoric times Br. was joined to the rest of E. The first people, came there over dry land. Towards the ...
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The Murderous Miracle: Sherlock Homes - Creative StoryThe Murderous Miracle
A
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Style
Mini-Mystery
I awakened from my morning slumber and groggily entered the foyer
to find Holmes sitting in his chair in a speculative pose while
thoughtfully smoking on one of his many pipes.
"Good Morning Holmes!, " I said in one ...
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Alzheimers DiseaseAlzheimer’s disease is a slowly progressive, degenerative disorder of the brain that eventually results in abnormal brain function and death. The disease was first described in 1907 by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer(1864-1915). In the neurological autopsy on the brain of a 56-year-old ...
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Leprechaunismis an extremely rare genetic disease that was first identified in 1948 by W.L. Donohue. There have only been 49 cases reported worldwide since is first reporting in 1948 until 1987. This disease is also known as Donohue Syndrome, in his honor.
Most patients die by the age of 10 months, ...
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The Physicistsis a satiric play written by the Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt about three physicists who are living in the private sanatorium " Les Cerisiers " headed by the last living member of an old regional aristocratic family, Miss Dr. h.c. Dr. med. Mathilde Von Zahnd. The first one thinks he is Sir ...
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