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Scuba Diving Swimming Pool
1,140 wordsScuba diving is a sport in which you can lose yourself to the beauty of the underwater world and escape gravity for a short time. You can wander among kelp forests or swim with sleek noble sharks. You can find a fortune in Spanish ducats or lose yourself in the beauty of the underwater realm. Some may say though that diving is an extreme sport and that it is too risky for anyone, it's just for the wild hooligans. Scuba Diving is a safe and enjoyable hobby despite the small risk involved. Haven't...
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Skeletal Muscles Smooth Muscles
613 wordsMuscular System The human muscular system is made up of over 600 connecting muscles. All of the muscles work together in sync to make your body move in several different ways. None of the body systems can work without muscles and your muscles can't work without your other body systems so that means that all of your body systems need each other to work and make your body function correctly. Your muscles need protein, nutrients, and oxygen to move and work. Then the circulatory system carries thos...
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People With Sleep Apnea People With Sleep Central
540 wordsSleep apnea is a common sleeping disorder where a person has experiences of not breathing during sleep. Over 20 million Americans, mostly overweight men, suffer from sleep apnea. Despite these numbers, sleep apnea is often not treated directly because its symptoms are thought to be those of depression, stress, or just loud snoring. There may be a genetic component to this disorder as it often occurs within families. People with sleep apnea stop breathing for at least 10 seconds at a time; these ...
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Found In Canada Whitetail Deer Fawns
674 wordsThe whitetail deer, or scientifically known as Odocoileus virginians, is one of the most known animals in America. They are found just about everywhere in the United States and can also be found in Canada, Mexico, and Central America. Because they are found all over, deer hunting has become a major sport and in the U. S. People hunt them for food and also for the challenge of getting the "big buck. " Whitetails usually grow to three and a half foot tall and weigh 50 to 400 pounds depending on wh...
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Human Cloning Foundation Third World Countries
1,014 wordsIn February of 1997 Dolly, the first successful mammalian clone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. After the extensive news coverage of this momentous event, the study of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA was thrown into the public spotlight. From that day until this peoples, governments and organizations throughout the world have heatedly discussed the issues surrounding genetic modification and engineering. Over the past several years there has been loud public outcry against the use of s...
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Downs Syndrome Genetic Disorder
1,468 words... y common in Downs Syndrome babies. Another thing that should be checked is for congenital dislocation of the hips. Extra care should be taken during the usual neonatal examination. In about 13 % of Downs Syndrome newborns there are already version problems with congenital cataracts. The removal of this early is very crucial. The sooner removed the better the babies vision is. (How to treat people with Downs Syndrome) Infancy It is extremely important to watch that the child during infancy do...
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Anabolic Steroids Years Ago
826 wordsAthletics today is not the same as it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. As the years have past our athletic events have become more important to our society, some athletes are getting paid upwards of a millions dollars a year to do what regular athletes have been doing for years. Since the athletes are getting paid more, it normal means that the games are getting more interesting. The things that make the games more interesting are the fact that todays athletes are going to great lengths to...
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Year Old Girl Fruits And Vegetables
1,173 wordsDr. Bernard D. Davis, professor of bacterial physiology at Harvard medical school in Cambridge, stated that after twenty years of expanding experience with biotechnology with no detectable harm to humans or to the environment, this concern has turned into a good idea (q. In Bender and Leon 23). Genetic engineering is defined as the scientific alteration of the structure of genetic material in living organisms. Although under heavy scrutiny, genetic engineering will someday be used to cure geneti...
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Type 2 Diabetes Glucose Tolerance
1,072 words... ; Evidence of Therapeutic/Diagnostic Significance Although the concept of developing a GSK- 3 inhibitor is new to pharmacology, some of the small molecules / drugs are not. There exist several naturally occurring GSK- 3 inhibitors that have been used as treatments for other diseases as well as synthetic compounds that have been identified through the use of high-throughput screens (FIGURE 8). One class of natural inhibitors is the metal ions. The first metal ion discovered as a GSK- 3 inhibi...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Mad Cow Disease
1,270 wordsFatal Familial Insomnia Fatal familial insomnia is a genetic disorder. It manifests itself by many symptoms due to the degeneration of a certain part of the brain, the thalamus. The disease also results in the formation of amyloid plaques. This is the build up of a waxy substance made of proteins associated with polysaccharides. The disease is a result of a mutation of a normal protein that is associated with brain tissue. This is the prion protein. In the case of fatal familial insomnia, the mu...
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Female Genital Mutilation Female Circumcision
649 wordsFemale circumcision, also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), is a very dangerous surgery. It is done to girls of any age, from a few days old to right before their wedding. The most common age is three. In most countries where FGM is practiced the clitoris is considered dangerous to the man. At one point they thought that if a penis touched a clitoris, it would shrivel up and fall off. Girls in Africa and parts of Asia are genitally mutilated for family honor, cleanliness, protection agai...
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Connective Tissue Severe Pain
1,027 wordsMore and more doctors are finding out that there are more diseases than they ever thought of. Doctors are always learning about new diseases and how to treat and hopefully cure or abolish them. However, with some new diseases, like Fibromyalgia, there is only so much a doctor can do; it is up to the victims of these diseases to treat themselves and stay healthy. Fibromyalgia is a condition in which people experience long-lasting, severe pain in muscles and other soft tissues throughout there bod...
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Contract This Disease Filariasis Worm Body
390 wordsLymphatic Filariasis is the worm that causes the strange disease Elephantiasis. It is only found in tropical regions so people living in the northern United States do not have to fear of contracting the disease. The Filariasis worm can be up to 100 cm long and once they are inside of your body the female worms lay live young so there is heavy infestation within your body. One thing you might be wondering is what the lymphatic system is and the lymphatic system is a string of very tiny veins that...
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Weight Loss Lose Weight
519 wordsHuman beings require food to grow, reproduce, and maintain good health. Without food, our bodies could not stay warm, build or repair tissue, or maintain a heartbeat. Eating the right foods can help us avoid certain diseases or recover faster when illness occurs. These and other important functions are fueled by chemical substances in our food called nutrients. Nutrients are classified as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Although humans need food to survive, many peo...
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Balsam Woolly Adelgis Begins Laying Eggs Tree
1,105 wordsBALSAM Forest Insects FOREST INSECTS BALSAM WOOLLY ADELGID (Adelgis Piece) Todays forests are under a continuous compound of physical stresses. In North America examples of this are evident in all regions, whether it be the subjection of Great Lakes woodlands to acid precipitation, the submission of hundreds of thousands of forested acres out west to fire of the catastrophic level, or annual gypsy moth defoliation of entire mountain sides in north central Pennsylvania. These dangers are out ther...
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Gene Therapy Brain Tumor
736 wordsGene therapy is one of the many new scientific frontiers that has been started up as a result of the continuing research of the human genome project. Gene therapy is a very new field of science, and so the full advantages and disadvantages are unknown. However, it is presumed that this will be the next frontier in medical science. Gene therapy works in three different ways. The basic idea is that new genes will some how Correct the mutant genes that are causing harm. It may involve one or severa...
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Cystic Fibrosis Genetically Altered
1,400 wordsGenetic scientists have been busy creating all kinds of solutions to some of the problems that the human and agricultural populations have been experiencing. One of the most promising has been in the area of transplantation. That is how Dolly the sheep, came about. Scientists have been trying to find a way to genetically engineer animals so that they can produce organs for humans that will not be rejected. Insulin from pigs has helped diabetics, pig valves can be used in cardiac repair, and pig ...
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Millions Of People Defective Genes
847 wordsIn the past couple years, the topic of genetic cloning has been under heated debate by people all over the world. This debate began when Scottish scientists cloned a sheep named Dolly. The event made headlines around the world and was seen as the beginning of the end for the human race, as we were dawning on a new era in science, one that was to be filled with immoral acts that were seen as scientifically impossible a few years ago. Some believe that cloning is unethical and unnatural, and shoul...
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Ladies And Gentlemen Cloning Research
550 wordsAlvin A. Soriano February 14, 2000 A pleasant morning Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to share my views on why cloning should be legalized in the Philippines. We, the experts in the Institute of Technological Technologies feel that with the careful continuation of research, the technological benefits of cloning clearly outweigh the possible social consequences. We think that final products of cloning, like farm animals, and laboratory mice will not be the most important achievement. The appli...
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Impact On Society Reproductive Cloning
1,436 wordsInfinite Possibilities If Mirrors Face The inevitability of human cloning is unavoidable. Although a majority of individuals disapprove the idea of cloning humans, I firmly believe that, not only will human cloning be widely practiced in the near future, but it will also benefit the health and well-being of all humanity. Just visualize for a second that you are one of the human clones that will exist within this decade, and imagine putting up with all the arguments that many opinion leaders are ...
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