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Heart Disease Cholesterol Levels
466 wordsThe word vegetarian, coined by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society in 1842, comes from the Latin word vegetal, meaning "whole, sound, fresh, or lively, " as in homo vegetal-a mentally and physically vigorous person. The original meaning of the word implies a balanced philosophical and moral sense of life, a lot more than just a diet of vegetables and fruits. Most vegetarians are people who have understood that to contribute towards a more peaceful society we must first solve the probl...
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Hydrochloric Acid Small Intestine
580 wordsIt is in the mouth, that the Thanksgiving feast begins its journey through the fabulous digestive system. It is here that the lips, cheeks and tongue, carefully position the food that the teeth will chew. This chewing process breaks up the food, this being a part of mechanical digestion. While the teeth grind up the turkey and tasty stuffings, the salivary glands begin emitting enzymes, these enzymes being contained in saliva. This saliva helps to dissolve some foods, and adds mucus to make the ...
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Base Pairs Double Helix
610 wordsThe molecule responsible for the transformation of characteristics form one generation to the next is called DNA. The genetic material, located in the chromosomes is a combination of acid and histones. DNA is made up of units called nucleotides. Nucleotides are made up of 3 components, a five carbon sugar (deoxyribose), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. This base can be either adenine, guanine, thymine or cytosine. There are 2 strands of nucleotides in a double-helix they are anti-paral...
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Herpes Simplex Virus Strains Of Hsv Viruses
591 wordsHOW ABOUT VIRUSES? Just like bacteria viruses are one of the microbes that are winning the match against the humans. Viruses were the toughest one to tackle for the scientist. The shape, contents and their protective shields were the most challenging part of the fight. There are many ways one can treat cancer, but for AIDS doctors prescribe a cocktail of drugs in which some are enzyme inhibitors, protein inhibitors and while some are RNA inhibitors. This is not it in the cocktail there is more t...
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Fast Food Restaurant Fruits And Vegetables
1,092 wordsDont Get Weighed Down Did you know that one Quarter Pounder from McDonalds has 430 calories, 21 grams of fat, and 70 mg. of cholesterol? Add cheese to that Quarter Pounder and you add 100 calories and nine grams of fat. McDonalds is not the only unhealthy restaurant. Pizza Hut, Burger King, and Wendy's also contribute to Americans unhealthy eating habits. America needs to stop advertising such unhealthy eating. How often do you hear of a ninety-nine cent special on a salad? Americans like there ...
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Drinking Driving Parties Drinking Driving Parties And Commonsensical Alcohol
617 wordsDrinking, Driving, Parties, And Commonsensical Solutions Essay, Research Drinking, Driving, Parties, And Commonsensical Solutions Drinking and driving is the number one killer of teenagers in America. Because of it, the teenage group is the only age group who? s number of deaths are increasing instead of decreasing. Outright denying teens of alcohol doesn? t work. That just makes young adults want alcohol even more. What? s sad about drinking under the influence cases is that every one of them c...
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White Tailed Deer Deer Hunting
1,270 wordsThe white-tailed deer is faced with many obstacles such as: finding food in every situation, confrontation with fellow deer, and battling the changing seasons. The adaptive senses that the deer possesses makes escaping hunters and other predators easier as well as keeping alive. I. Introduction II. Foods and feeding of the white-tailed deer A. Acorns are the primary food for the white-tailed deer 1. Whitetails feed heavily on white and red oak acorns 2. Acorns low in protein and high in carbohyd...
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Carbon Dioxide Page 2
772 wordsTable of Contents Introduction Page 1 Experimentation Page 1 Discussion Page 2 Conclusion Page 2 Acknowledgments Page 2 References Page 3 Introduction My experiment was with yeast and the best food for it. I wanted to know what would make the yeast grow better. I used corn syrup, gelatin, grape juice and flour mixed with water. I thought that the corn syrup, which is high in processed sugars, would produce the make the most carbon dioxide gas. Carbon dioxide is a by-product made when yeast repro...
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Hours Per Week Hunting And Gathering
745 wordsHunting and Gathering VS Agriculture From the early prehistoric society until now, we often heard the word adaptation, which means the process of changing something or changing our behavior to deal with new situations. The ways people adjust their natural environment varies according to time, place, and tribe. Foraging is common way of adaptation that people uses for most of human history; however because of the population pressure, some people adopt agriculture to fulfill their need. This essay...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Cell Membrane
646 wordsI am your usual plant cell. There are trillions of my kind on all plants, grass, and trees. My breed ranges from ten to a hundred micrometers. I am approximately twenty micrometers since I dwell in grass. My organelles stretch out to one to ten micrometers. If you are asking what I really do and how I live, I am going to answer them in this paper. First off, any cells requires a structure, metabolism, energy, nutrients, waste, and communication. I am more complex than most other cells. Bacteria ...
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Urinary Tract Kidney Stones
624 wordsKidneys Kidney Diseases Kidney Diseases Kidneys are paired organs, each sharing equally the work of removing wastes and excess water from the blood. Remarkably, a single kidney can do the job of both if one kidney is lost through injury or disease. It sometimes occurs, although rarely, that a person is born with only one kidney. Such people are able to lead normal lives. Diseases of the kidney range from mild infection to life-threatening kidney failure. The most common form of kidney disease is...
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Peptide Bonds Test Tube
606 wordsThis lab used many test to determine which functional groups were present in certain substance. The Benedicts test was used to identify reducing sugars (glucose and fructose) based on their ability to reduce the Caprice ions to cuprous oxide at high pH. The Cuprous oxide is reddish orange in color when shown to be at high levels by the test, and greenish when at low levels. In both the onion juice and glucose solution the reducing sugar levels were very high, because the test came back dark oran...
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Cell Membrane Host Cell
999 wordsLASSA FEVER; AN OLD WORLD ARENAVIRUS ABSTRACT A brief summary of lassa fever, its history, pathology and effects on the indigenous populations. Also, lassa fever in the context of newly emerging diseases. LASSA FEVER On January 12, 1969, a missionary nun, working in the small town of Lassa, Nigeria, began complaining of a backache. Thinking she had merely pulled a muscle, she ignored the pain and went on about her business. After a week, however, the nurse had a throat so sore and so filled with...
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Cell Membrane Host Cell
819 wordsLassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus ABSTRACT A brief summary of lassa fever, its history, pathology and effects on the indigenous populations. Also, lassa fever in the context of newly emerging diseases. LASSA FEVER On January 12, 1969, a missionary nun, working in the small town of Lassa, Nigeria, began complaining of a backache. Thinking she had merely pulled a muscle, she ignored the pain and went on about her business. After a week, however, the nurse had a throat so sore and so filled with...
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Drug Related Made Illegal
698 wordsShould Marijuana be legalized? Affirmative We need fuel! We need paper! People are starving! The answer to these problems is grow more pot. If we really want to save the rain forest than that is the answer. According to the U. S. department of agriculture you can make 4 times as much paper with hemp as you can with the same land area of trees, and you can grow another crop when youre done. Plus it only uses 1 / 5 the chemicals and is + the cost of paper made from trees. In fact, before the 20 th...
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Herbal Extracts Such As Ginseng Extracts Such As Ginseng Energy
622 wordsIn Marketing The Energy Drink In this project I will be looking into the marketing of Burn an energy drink, but what is an energy drink and what can they really do for you. ? They beckon from store shelves and counter tops in a wide range of colours, shapes and sizes: a burgeoning selection of nutrient-enriched drinks whose labels promise energy, power or growth. Some come loaded with carbohydrates, some are packed with protein and others are laced with vitamins and even herbal extracts such as ...
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Tyrosinase Related Protein Pigmentation Genes Associated With Albinism Gene
236 wordsMolecular Basis Of Albinism: Mutations And Polymorphisms Molecular Basis Of Albinism: Mutations And Polymorphisms Of Pigmentation Genes Associated With Albinism. Title Molecular basis of albinism: mutations and polymorphisms of pigmentation genes associated with albinism. Abstract Albinism, caused by a deficiency of melanin pigment in the skin, hair, and eye (oculocutaneous albinism [OCA]), or primarily in the eye (ocular albinism [OA]), results from mutations in genes involved in the biosynthes...
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Animal Rights Movement Eating Meat
636 wordsVegetarianism is the limitation of ones diet to only vegetables. Vegetarianism has been around for centuries, but recently we have seen the eruption of a more militant vegetarianism that is inspired by the animal rights movement. Today, vegetarian activists are throwing pies at Ronald McDonald and the Pork Queen, scrawling meat is murder in prominent locations, committing terrorist acts of arson, and waging media campaigns equating meat consumption with cannibalism. Vegetarians are, on the avera...
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Bone Loss Vitamin D
532 wordsOsteoporosis is Osteoporosis Osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a health ailment which causes bones to become so porous that they can break easily. Osteoporosis literally means porous bones. The bones in our skeleton are made of a thick outer shell and a strong inner mesh filled with collagen [protein], calcium salts and other minerals. The inside looks like honeycomb, with blood vessels and bone marrow in the spaces between bone. Osteoporosis occurs when the holes between bone become bigger, making i...
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Term Side Effects Creatine Supplementation
1,276 wordsPowering Up With Creatine Many people have wondered if there are any dietary supplements out there that can help them become better athletes and still not harm their bodies. Creatine (methyl guanidine-acetic acid) is a substance that has hit the market with extraordinary power. Creatine is something that the body normally creates and contains. We normally obtain creatine from our diets. Some people use creatine supplementation in order to receive the maximum creatine ones body can hold. Creatine...
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