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Proteins Essays and Term Papers
Enzymesare proteins, composed of polypeptide chains and non-protein groups. Their function is to help with the reactions of many cells and molecules by serving as catalysts. A catalyst is a substance that allows the activation energy required for a reaction by forming a temporary association with the ...
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LsdTable of Contents Introduction Table 1:Effects of A Brief Foray Into Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences The Suspects Figure 1: Structure of Overview of Synaptic Transmission Theory: Pre-synaptically Inhibits 5-HT Neurons Theory: Post-synaptically Antagonizes 5-HT2 ...
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Morality And The Human Genome ProjectDoes the Human Genome Project affect the moral standards of society? Can
the information produced by it become a beneficial asset or a moral evil? For
example, in a genetic race or class distinction the use of the X chromosome
markers can be used for the identification of a persons ethnicity or ...
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TumorsThe word Tumor simply means abnormal growth. Frequently this term is incorrectly used interchangeably with cancer. However, tumor may refer to a benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) growth. Both benign and malignant result from the abnormal growth of cells. Normal cells reproduce in an ...
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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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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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Mad Cow DiseaseBovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better know as is a
relatively new disease. Most sources state that BSE first showed up in Great
Britain in 1986 [Dealler p.5] but some say it popped up in 1985 [Greger p.1].
However the official notification was not until 21 June, 1988 [Dealler ...
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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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Phosphatesmay be created by substituting some or all of the hydrogen of a
phosphoric acid by metals. Depending on the number of hydrogen atoms that are
replaced, the resulting compound is described as a primary, secondary or
tertiary phosphate. Primary and secondary contain hydrogen and are
acid salts. ...
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HemophiliaIn the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males have XY. In addition to the ...
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Genetic Engineering, History And FutureAltering the Face of Science
Science 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 ...
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Protein SynthesisIn the process of transcription a DNA molecule uncoils at a point along its structure where the neccessary information to construct the needed protein is. The weak hydrogen bonds between the DNA bases then break, using the neccessary enzymes, which opens the molecule out, then free RNA ...
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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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CloningA man is driving late at night and gets into a car accident. He loses both of his arms. Instead of going the rest of his life he has new arms attached to his body. Sounds like something that could only be true in a science fiction novel, right. Wrong, This is something that could be quite possible ...
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Abnormal Psychology: Mental DisordersSchizophrenia
http://www.mentalhealth.com/book/p40-sc02.html#Head_1
Schizophrenia is a disorder that can effect anyone. It is the greatest
the greatest disorder that effects teenagers. When someone is effected by the
disorder it is not just that one person that has to learn to deal with it, ...
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Two Inventions That Changed European HistoryOver the course of world history, there have been many factors that have changed the course of Western European history. Two of those main factors were the inventions of the chest harness for the horse and the three-field system of agriculture.
The harness for the horses of the early middle ages ...
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Linus Carl Paulingwas born in 1901 and died in 1994. He was an American
chemist and physicist, whose investigations into the structure of molecules led
to discoveries of how chemicals bond.
Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 1901, and educated
at Oregon State College and the California Institute ...
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The Ebola VirusA virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having no
independent metabolic activity, can replicate only within a cell of another host
organism. A virus consists of a core of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA,
surrounded by a coating of antigenic protein and sometimes a lipid ...
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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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