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Enzyme Essays and Term Papers
Dna ReplicationDNA is a molecule that has a repeating chain of identical five-carbon sugars (polymers) linked together from head to tail. It is composed of four ring shaped organic bases (nucleotides) which are Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T). It has a double helix shape and contains the ...
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Jon Bennet RamseyIt was Christmas night 1996, Boulder, Colorado. The Ramsey family was on their way home from a Christmas party. Jonbenet was asleep in the backseat of the car. The Ramsey’s were planning a trip to their family home in Michigan the next morning.
When the morning of December 26th came, ...
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DiabetesNearly 16 million people in the United States--nearly one out of every 17 people--have . And about 1,800 new cases are diagnosed each day.
Technically, this disease is known as " mellitus," from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for ...
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Genetic Disordersare medical conditions that are caused by an error in a
person's genes. Some of them appear as a birth defect, while others do not
become distinct until later in life. can range from those that
cause death to those that produce only mild problems, such as color blindness
or an extra pinky. ...
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DepressiooConsider this: Elizabeth Wurtzel has struggled with depression throughout her life. She has a history of suicide attempts, self-mutilations, and serious mood swings. She took numerous antidepressants and medications in an attempt to regulate her irregular behavior. She quit using the ...
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The Ebola VirusYour have sudden fever, weakness, muscle pains, headache, and a
sore throat, and that is just what's happening to you before the really bad
symptoms of this virus kicks in. These are followed by vomiting, diarrhea,
and rash, and that are just some of the bad symptoms of this horrible virus
know as ...
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UFOs"Little Green Men", "Martians", "Outer Limits" ! That is what people
think about when aliens and come to mind. Aliens have been around, as
far as we can see, since 1561. The question is now asked, How come because
they [] have been sighted, encountered, and taken hostage; Why have we
been kept in ...
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The Genetics Of ViolenceIntroduction
We, in the 1990’s, are slowly and inevitably being faced with the
sociological and biological implications of impending genetic power. This power
is analytical, in such cases as the Human Genome Project, which will hopefully
succeed in mapping out the genetic code for the entire human ...
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The Effects Of Processing VegetablesThere is a variety of different ways to process a vegetable, but is it the same vegetable when it comes out as it went in? Vegetables are sold canned, frozen and fresh just about everywhere. Posing the question, are they equally as nutritious? Nutrition is a topic concerning Americans today ...
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Prolonged Preservation Of The Heart Prior To TransplantationPicture this. A man is involved in a severe car crash in Florida
which has left him brain-dead with no hope for any kind of recovery. The
majority of his vital organs are still functional and the man has
designated that his organs be donated to a needy person upon his untimely
death. Meanwhile, ...
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Alzheimer's Diseaseis a progressive and irreversible brain disease that
destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads
to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States.
Alzheimer's creates emotional and financial catastrophe for many American
families ...
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AIDS - What's New ??
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Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to
prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue
to stop many from taking adequate precautions.
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect
ourselves from it ...
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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisMotor Neuron Disease Maladie de Charcot Lou Gehrig's Disease
What is the Disease?
ALS is an extremely deadly disease affecting the nerve cells that
control the victim's voluntary muscles. These nerves shrink and eventually die,
leaving the muscles without stimulation. As these muscles go ...
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Oxygenand its compounds play a key role in many of the important processes of
life and industry. in the biosphere is essential in the processes of
respiration and metabolism, the means by which animals derive the energy needed
to sustain life. Furthermore, is the most abundant element at the ...
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AcetaminophenIn the late 1800’s it was discovered that papa-amino-phenol, could reduce fever, but the drug was too toxic to use. A less toxic extract called phenacetin was later found to be just as effective but also had pain-relieving properties. In 1949, it was learned that phenacetin was metabolized into ...
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FungusThe Latin word for mushroom is (plural, fungi). The word has come to stand for a whole group of simple plants that contain no chlorophyll and lack such complex plant structures as roots, stems, leaves, and flowers. Included among the fungi, along with mushrooms, are molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, ...
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The Spread Of AIDSIs the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions.
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such ...
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Genetic Engineering And DNA Technology In Agricultural ProductivityDue to more and more technological advances in genetic engineering, gene splicing, DNA fingerprinting, and mapping, breakthroughs in the agricultural productivity are being made. This new DNA technology allows scientists to do things such as increase food production, reduce the plant’s ...
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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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PCR And Its UseOften times, scientists only have a small amount of DNA to deal with when doing
genetic research or studies. In these situations, scientists can do one of
several things. One is to just try to work with it anyway, but this is nearly
impossible (depending on how much there is). Ther are a couple ...
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