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Test Tube Degrees Celsius
1,267 wordsEnzyme Action: Testing Catalase Activity Enzymes are proteins that serve as catalysts and accelerate chemical reactions in living organisms. Enzymes accomplish this by lowering the energy of activation of the organism it is acting upon, however enzymes will only lower the energy of activation for specific organisms, reducing chaotic chemical reactions. The reaction is carried out in its entirety in the active site of the enzyme. The substrate (organism acted upon), binds itself into the active s...
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Clinical Trials Information For Patients
1,232 wordsClinical Trials Information for Patients In cancer research, a clinical trial is an organized study conducted in people with cancer to answer specific questions about a new treatment or a new way of using a known treatment. Each study tries to increase medical knowledge and to find new and better ways to help cancer patients. Besides studying new anticancer drugs, clinical trials study new combinations of drugs already used in cancer treatment, new ways of giving treatment, and how changes in li...
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Board Of Education Science And Religion
1,494 wordsWith each new development in science comes conflict, mostly from those who don't believe that science follows the teachings of their religion or allies with their beliefs in an almighty power or God. Looking back in history at some of the great names in human scientific achievement, such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin, we see that with each genius discovery came some outcry from religious groups. Nikolaus Copernicus was one of the first pioneers of science. Until 1540 science had long been a...
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Orange Juice Graduated Cylinder
456 wordsSupplementing Vitamin C: Essential To Good Health Millions of Americans depend on vitamins. Vitamins are what gives you a boost and helps you start your morning right. In this report I will discuss different kinds of vitamins, where vitamins come from, how vitamins help you, oranges, and my lab results. Ascorbic acid, also called vitamin C is an organic compound needed by humans to prevent scurvy and to increase the body's resistance to infections (Encarta 1). Ascorbic acid acts as an antioxidan...
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Paper Towel One Person
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User Interface Computer Aided
2,145 words... d 27 November 1992, was, like all major failures, blamed on a number of factors. These include inadequate training given to the operators, commercial pressures, no backup procedure, no consideration was given to system overload, poor user interface, not a proper fit between software and hardware and not enough system testing being carried out before hand. Claims were later made in the press that up to 20 - 30 people might have died as a result of ambulances arriving too late on the scene. Ac...
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Prenatal Diagnosis Downs Syndrome
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17 Th Century National Institute Of Health
1,046 wordsSpecific Purpose To persuade my audience that animal testing is wrong and how other safer alternatives should be taken. Central Idea By going the extra mile in using safer alternatives when experimenting with animals will not only prevent conflicts from pro-life activists, it will minimize lawsuits and morals will be preserved. Introduction I. Okay I got a riddle I made up for the class. A. What was once cute and furry but becomes a bloody rotted mess? B. You guys give up? C. Well the answer to ...
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Animal Experimentation Naturally Occurring
1,725 wordsImagine having a headache and not having aspirin to take, or being diabetic and not being able to take certain types of insulin (Williams 3). It seems impossible that these drugs could be unavailable to humans, but they would not be attainable had scientists not tested these drugs on non-animal subjects. Contrary to what many people believe, testing drugs on animals often give defective results. More than 205, 000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year, most undergo the most archaic and unr...
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Animal Experimentation Animal Testing
1,944 words... for pregnancy was to inject a urine sample into a rabbit. After injected, the rabbit would be killed to see if the ovaries were swollen; if so, the woman was pregnant. As indicated, there have been some strides for the search for alternatives to animal testing, but without animal testing the environment will also suffer. The mink is a good example of how testing is helping the environment. Mink are highly susceptible to a raft of environmental chemicals, particularly PCBs (Polychlorinated Bi...
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Save His Life Sir Gawain
2,586 wordsLoyalty, courage, honor, purity, and courtesy are all attributes of a knight that displays chivalry. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is truly a story of the test of these attributes. In order to have a true test of these attributes, there must first be a knight worthy of being tested, meaning that the knight must possess chivalric attributes to begin with. Sir Gawain is self admittedly not the best knight around. He says I am the weakest, well I know, and of wit feeblest; / and the loss of my li...
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Sexually Transmitted Pregnant Women
1,105 wordsby Ashley Christensen Ms. Robinson Period Chlamydia Chlamydia by Ashley ChristenseMs. Robinson Period 3 / Sociology 2 / 29 / 2000 Introduction Today, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), are among the most common causes of illness in the United States. People in their teens and twenties are most affected by STD? s, with over 6 million new cases each year, and adults between the ages of 13 and 19 are at the most risk for infection. Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted dise...
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Drug Testing Learning Environment
328 wordsDrug Testing in School There is a great deal of controversy in school systems today on the issue of drug testing. Drug testing would help our schools to be clean from drugs and the drug users. Many people who use drugs do not care about their work or other students. Therefore if the students who use drugs get tested for drugs and get a positive test back they should be kicked out of school. By these drug users being expelled from school the consequences for the rest of the student body would be ...
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Marijuana Is Smoked Periods Of Time
3,893 wordsDrugs and Athletes Drugs have been a problem in our society for many years. They have been used and abused by many groups, including professional athletes. It is certainly quite common to hear about or read about athletes and drug use. Although drugs have a lengthy history of use by athletes, they have varied effects on the body and different preventions. Much of the worlds supply of cocaine is produced in South America. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Incas of Peru chewed coca leaves becaus...
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Zaire Or Sudan Infected With Ebola Virus
1,266 wordsEbola Virus or Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is one of the most deadly viruses known to mankind. The strength and amount of time it lasts varies with different strains, but Ebola kills 50 to 90 % of the people it infects. As of July 1, 1995, 573 deaths have been reported due the disease. It was first identified in 1975 in Zaire, when a small village was almost entirely whipped out and 340 people ended up dead. Ebola is a member of a group of RNAviruses called Filoviruses. There are three known strains...
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Effects Of Cannabis Smoked Marijuana
2,466 wordsMarijuana can cause many harmful effects. There has never been a major test though. The ones they? ve used have shown very different things. I have been very surprised by what I have been reading. I cannot believe the difference in what different scientists think. One says, ? Its hard to know for sure whether regular marijuana use causes cancer. But it is known that marijuana contains some of the same and sometimes even more, of the cancer-causing chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Studies show t...
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Million Acres Ocean Water
876 wordsIrrigating Crops with Seawater Brown J. Jed, Glenn Edward P. , and O Leary James W. 1998. Irrigating Crops with Seawater. Scientific American. Irrigating Crops with Seawater talks about the global problem of finding enough water and land for the world s population to survive. An estimated 494. 2 million acres of cropland is needed just to feed the tropics and subtropics for the next 30 years. However, only close to 200 million acres are available. Therefore, new sources of water and land are nee...
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Carol Gilligan Moral Dilemmas
1,764 wordsLAWRENCE KOHLBERG S THE PHILOSOPHY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT Born: 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Raised in Bronxville, New York) Died: January 19, 1987 he committed suicide by drowning himself in The Boston Harbor. Family Life: Born to a wealthy family. Married &# 038; divorced Had two sons. Education: Attended Phillips Academy, then The University of Chicago (Because he scored so high on his admissions test, he quizzed out of many courses and received his bachelors degree in one year). He also att...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Smoke Marijuana
1,243 wordsRecently doctors have prescribed marijuana, and? the Clinton administration threatened to prosecute doctors who prescribe marijuana, ? (Gonnerman 40). Doctors are prescribing marijuana for its medical benefits. The Clinton administration on the other hand is outlawing marijuana because it has not been approved by the FDA. Since doctors feel marijuana has medical benefits it should be clinically tested so they can prescribe it for their patients. Marijuana can be used for many medical reasons. Fo...
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First Atomic Bomb Atomic Weapon
1,719 wordsThe research for the first Atomic bomb was done in the United States, by a group of the best scientists; this research was given the name of? The Manhattan Project? . On Monday July 16 th, 1945, a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos, New Mexico. This atomic bomb testing would forever change the meaning of war. As the atomic bomb was detonated it sent shock-waves all over the world. There was endless research done on the bomb in the United States. The ...
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