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Term Papers on Science
The Rain Forest
Number of words: 2207 - Number of pages: 9.... Southeast Asia, and other areas in which
temperatures stay above 80 degrees Fahrenheit year round. They can be found in
85 countries all over the world, however, 90 percent of them are concentrated
into fifteen countries, each containing over ten million hectares. Tropical
rainforests receive 160 to 400 inches of rain each year. Although these dense,
damp forests cover just 5 percent of the Earth's surface, they can provide homes
for between 50 and 90 percent of the Earth's plants and animals
(http://www.davesite.com/rainforests/review1.shtml).
Tropica .....
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Genetic Engineering -
Number of words: 980 - Number of pages: 4.... 46). But we should use genetic engineering in a proper way. Our goal should be to find areas where it is needed rather than try to misuse it for personal gain. Genetic engineering can provide medical benefits to humans, but limits have to be set.
Our body contains one hundred trillion cells, inside most cells is a nucleus that contains a complete set of the body’s blueprints. Those blueprints are twisted into forty-six packets called chromosomes. Unravel a chromosome, and you get the long, thread-like molecule called DNA. Within the DNA are the blue .....
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Big Brother, Little Sister Computer Monitoring
Number of words: 721 - Number of pages: 3.... more responsibility by employers and employees alike. Micheal J. Smith, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains that knowledge can be used as a weapon or as a tool (DeTienne 462).
For instance monitoring abuse can be found in the in the situation of airline agents. The agents discovered that by keeping customers on hold while finishing their work they could gain an extra 5-minute break (De Tienne 462). In the future these evasions of work will be stopped and for this reason "employee's who are accustomed to evading the monitoring system may .....
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Global Warming--is It Getting Warmer
Number of words: 603 - Number of pages: 3.... the earth’s atmosphere and is absorbed. It is then transformed into heat energy at the planet's surface. This heat energy then radiates upward into space. There the greenhouse gases found naturally in the troposphere absorb some of the infrared radiation. The gases insulate the Earth, but do eventually allowing some of the heat to escape. The rest of the heat reflects back down to earth where it is bounced back up again. Almost like an ongoing game of ping-pong. With more of the greenhouse gasses being let out into the atmosphere, there are more ping-pong .....
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"Biodiversity"
Number of words: 505 - Number of pages: 2.... main cause of this. Over fishing, pollution, over cutting, and an
increase in population contribute to this problem. An example of this is the
gold mining operation that we saw in the video. While mining, Mercury was
dripping into the water. The mercury then got into the fish and into the humans
who ate the fish.
Biodiversity promotes a healthy environment. Environments rich in
biodiversity are stronger and can with stand things such as drought, disease,
and other stresses that environments that lack it cannot. In the video, during
the drought, the side of .....
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Biological Effects Of Radiation
Number of words: 610 - Number of pages: 3.... to the survival of the cell, it is referred to as a direct effect. Such interaction may affect the ability of the cell to reproduce and, thus, survive. If enough atoms are affected in such a way that the chromosomes do not replicate properly, or there is a significant alteration in the information carried by the DNA molecule, then the cell may be destroyed by “direct” interference with its life-sustaining system.
Indirect effects are caused by the reaction of radiation with the water that makes up the majority of the cells volume. When radiation interacts wi .....
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Alternative Medicine
Number of words: 4283 - Number of pages: 16.... treatments, insurance
companies are keeping the cost of the premiums down but at the
same time not allowing their customers to use complementary
treatments such as chiropractic to prevent or cure illness. The
more rigid and restrictive the policy provisos, the more
assurance for the companies that they will maximize their bottom
lines. Therefore, patients of alternative therapies as well as
doctors must show that such unconventional treatment provides
relief and prevention of illness. “The total projected out-of-
pocket expenditure for unconvent .....
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Chromosome Probes At The University Of Toronto
Number of words: 2250 - Number of pages: 9.... time consuming and technically difficult to do, are restricted to women over 35 and those who have a family history of chromosomal abnormalities. Prenatal tests using Willard's probes would be much simpler and faster to perform and could be available to all pregnant women who wish to take advantage of the technology. Current prenatal testing involves growing fetal cells in vitro and examining them, over one or two months, to see if there are two copies of a particular chromosome, which is normal, or one or three, which is abnormal. A test using Willard's pr .....
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