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A Study Of Lyme Disease In New Jersey
1,296 wordsJust by living in the world, human beings are susceptible to disease. Many diseases -- for example, influenza and tuberculosis -- are spread when bacteria or viruses pass from one person to another. Other diseases are acquired genetically from ones parents, such as cystic fibrosis. Some diseases, such as heart disease and osteoporosis, develop as humans age. Others humans get from the environment; examples are lead poisoning and skin cancer due to exposure to the sun. Finally, there are diseases...
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Guns Germs And Steel
525 wordsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond has a clear focus, seeking and convincingly providing the answer to the question "why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?" In other words, why did Columbus discover America and Pizarro conquer the Incas rather than the Inca "discovering" and conquering Europe? Why did Europe colonize Africa instead of vice versa? And he isn't satisfied with simply considering the immediate causes -- "Guns, Germs, and Steel" -- but...
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Hubble Space Telescope Universe Continues To Expand Energy
786 wordsThe universe begins with a cataclysm that generates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy the universe will ever hold. For an incomprehensibly small fraction of a second, the universe is an infinitely dense, hot fireball. The prevailing theory describes a peculiar form of energy that can suddenly push out the fabric of space. On a rare occasion, a runaway process called "Inflation" can cause a vast expansion of space filled with this energy. The inflationary expansion is stopped o...
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Adult Males Gave Birth
1,278 words... ther to be alone with her infant and gang up on her. In three years from 1974 to 1976 only a single infant in the Kasakela community had lived for more than one month. Finally, when Passion gave birth again to a third child, and Pom also gave birth, the extraordinary cannibalistic infant killing came to an end (Goodall, 1979: 619). Chimpanzees have been studied in the Mahale Mountains National Park for 25 years. The study group, M-group, consisting of about 90 chimpanzees, has been monitored...
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Find A Cure Ebola Reston
1,511 wordsHow would you like it if you died? Well that's what's happening to people in Africa. Their families die around them, spreading the deadly disease further into the ecosystem. Killing at will, this potent filoviruses sweeps through villages with reckless abandon, destroying anything and everything in it's way, and then just as mysteriously as it came, it disappears without a trace. Even with our modern technologies, we still don't really know too much about this death sentence disguised as a virus...
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Common Vampire Bats Common Vampire Bat Species
768 wordsBats. Usually the first thing to enter a persons mind when they hear this word is Scary, vicious, rats with wings. But bats arent really like that at all. That image was just created by Hollywood in their attempt to frighten others. Bats are apart of a whole different order than the rodent. There are approximately 1, 100 species of bats in the world, which is about twenty percent of all mammal species. The two main species are the megabits and the microbes. Examples of two species (both of which...
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Types Of Society Morgan Explains Chapter
1,035 words... as a touch of arousal. The male and female being close to each other with comforting touches often lead to mutual arousal. This act of the comfort moves these actions towards love. The only difference between them [the man and woman] was that he would get his behavioral reward even if the emotion was absent, while for hertha without this embellishment the whole performance seemed singularly pointless and unsatisfying (110). We are different from many other apes but our one strong difference ...
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Type Of Cloning Desirable Traits
1,048 wordsGenetic engineering is the changing of an organism's DNA, genetic material to eliminate unwanted traits or to produce desirable traits. The earliest form of genetic engineering dates back to the scientist Gregor Mendel who did experiments with peas. He bred only the peas with the most desirable traits in order to achieve a healthier and stronger pea (McCuen 8). This method, called selective breeding, is still used today with plants and animals in order to increase food production. Corn plants ar...
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Domesticated Long Ago Camel Like Animals Camels
444 wordsMore than 3, 000 years ago an ungainly but useful desert animal was domesticated in Arabia. It was the Arabian camel, a long-legged beast within large hump on its back. It could cross hot deserts without needing much water, and it could carry heavy loads without tiring. The two-humped Bactrian camel of central Asia was also domesticated long ago. It is sturdier than the Arabian and can carry heavier loads. During the winter, its brownish hair is thick and long for protection from the cold nights...
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Egg Cell Closely Related
944 wordsCloning Technologies and More Science, in the past few years has made great strides in the field of mammal reproduction. They? ve worked for years to find out exactly what happens during a pregnancy, and also how it works. We? ve come so far in these stages as to gain the knowledge needed to make oral contraceptives. However, I am not writing this report to enlighten you on these subjects, or to debate the ethical issues of them. This report is focusing on the creation of life, not the destructi...
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Life On Earth Hydrogen Bombs
1,611 wordsRobert Pike English 111, Professor Ryan Barbour 10 December 1997 Meteors and Comets and Their Impact on Our Planet How much do we know about our planet and its natural history? Why did the great dinosaurs disappear? All of the answers are now starting to come to light. Scientist have speculated that Earth? s history and evolution may have been more violent than we first thought. If you can, image a large chunk of rock hurtling through space heading toward Earth on a collision course and watching...
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Pectoral Fins Fibrous Tissue
1,093 wordsDolphins are sleek Dolphins Dolphins Dolphins are sleek and powerful swimmers found in all seas. Dolphins are distinguished from porpoises by well-defined, beak-like snouts and conical teeth. There are at least 32 species of dolphins. Typical examples are the bottle-nosed dolphin, a popular performer in sea aquariums, and the common dolphin, which inspired many Mediterranean folk legends. Both often appear in open waters. Several freshwater species inhabit river estuaries in Asia and South Ameri...
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Mental Disorder Success Rate
1,087 wordsThe world has Genetics Genetics The world has evolved and changed so much that so many things we thought were impossible are now possible, or becoming possible. Certain advances in the field of genetics have sparked controversy. Genetics offers a wide range of opportunities for people. It offers such ideas as allowing parents to choose what kind of sex there child would be, and parents also have the option of enhancing there childs memory and IQ. Cloning is also a big issue. There are people tha...
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Toxic Chemicals Oil Spills
515 wordsExplain The Importance Of Preserving The Health Explain The Importance Of Preserving The Health And Diversity Of The Worlds Oceans. ESSAY # 1 Explain the importance of preserving the health and diversity of the worlds oceans. Our oceans are the most productive and more than likely the most helpful environment on the planet today. Oceans not only supply our ozone with life supporting oxygen, control the earths weather patterns, it also is home to over a million different species ranging from mamm...
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Guns Germs And Steel Germs And Steel Food
1,035 wordsWhy is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? Or as Yale puts it in the far beginning of the book, ? Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? ? Despite all the contrary evidence from anthropology and human biology, many persist in attributing the differing political and economic successes of the world? s peoples to historical contingency. On the other hand though, the author sees th...
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Bone Marrow Identical Twin
641 wordsThere are two different responses produced by the immune response in mammals. There is the Cell mediated response, and there is the antibody response. First we shall deal with the Cell mediated response. This response is based upon the help of T-Cells. There are various types of T-cells which all have different jobs in the system. The cell mediated response is mainly utilised in defence against intracellular pathogens, such as view and fungi (and some bacteria). The T-cell precursors are produce...
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Bar Mitzvah Friday Night
1,136 wordsJudaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahai faith all originated with a divine covenant between the God of the ancient Israelites and Abraham around 2000 BCE. The next leader of the Israelites, Moses, led his people out of captivity in Egypt and received the Law from God. Joshua later led them into the Promised Land where Samuel established the Israelite kingdom with Saul as its first king. King David established Jerusalem and King Solomon built the first temple there. In 70 CE the temple was des...
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Leaf Nosed Bats Species Of Bats Microbes
946 wordsBy Nick Carroll (I do not wish to remain anonymous; let my work benefit everyone! ! ) Note: I wrote this as a freshman. I do not know if it is any good. The information is accurate, though. Have Fun! Bats: Their Life and Special Senses Bats are the only mammals capable of long periods of flight. Bats are classified into two distinct groups, larger bats, or megabits and smaller bats, called microbes, in 17 families. One of these families contain all megabits (more than 150 species); the other 16 ...
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Medium Sized Sea Ice
1,154 wordsThe penguin (Sphenisciformes) has been a fascination to numerous people including scientists and researchers alike. They have distinctive characteristics and an interesting classification system. Their eating habits, unique way of breeding and predators are just a way of everyday life that fascinates scientists and researchers. The species status still remains in danger and can hopefully be helped. This unusual bird stands on short legs and walks with a clumsy waddle. These birds cannot fly whic...
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National Park World Heritage
622 wordsUluru National Park, is national park in the Northern Territory. The park lies approx. 478 km away from Alice Springs. The area was established as Ayers Rock/Mount Olga National Park in 1958 and renamed Uluru National Park in 1977. In 1985 the land was officially returned to, the region s Aborigines. The Aborigines leased the area to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. The park was placed on the World Heritage List in 1987. The parks two main geological features are Uluru (Ayers ...
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