Galileo And The Telescope
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the Planet. These points he concluded were the four moons that orbit Jupiter. It showed that there were things in the heavens that Aristotle knew nothing about. The was not unique anymore because it wasn’t the only planet to have objects orbit it.
And last but not least, Galileo saw that the Earth shines on the moon. It showed the Earth to be a little less celestial. The Earth can shine on another object like any regular object. It is not as special as initially thought to be.
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Gas Laws (cemistry)
.... the liquid level in both arms is the same, the pressure of the sample of gas inside the closed end must equal the pressure of the external atmosphere since the downward force on the two columns of liquid is then equal. When the liquid levels are unequal, the pressures must differ. The difference in pressure can be measured in units of length of the vertical column of liquid. The mm Hg, or its modern version the torr, originated in this use of the manometer. Mercury is particularly convenient for use in m .....
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Gene Therapy
.... stages, being investigated in basic research laboratories. A number of early human clinical trials have been initiated to test important concepts that have emerged in these laboratory studies.
The reasoning for gene therapy lies in our understanding of the genetic basis of human disease. It is probably safe to say that genes we inherit from our parents influence virtually every human disease. A composite of approximately 150,000 individual genes constitutes a human being. Several years ago, a .....
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Gene Therapy 2
.... offspring, whereas in germline gene therapy the changes are passed onto the next generation. Not much research is being done in germline gene therapy because of technical and ethical reasons.
The first step of gene therapy is to find the location of the problem gene or genes. DNA probes are used to find the problem DNA. "The technique relies upon the fact that complimentary pieces of DNA stick together."5 The Human Genome Project is helping to piece together the location of all of the human genome.
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Gene Therapy 3
.... don’t do that to me or try to fight for it’s freedom to live and live with happiness. "Isn’t this like condemning Jesus because his unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion?" (King 342). Everyone has the right to live a happy life. That right should not be taken away from us just because it means loving someone of the same sex.
Not taking out the homosexuality gene, we are allowing everyone the right to freed .....
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (gad)
.... keyed up or on edge
2) Being easily fatigued
3) Difficulty in concentrating or mind going blank
4) Irritability
5) Muscle tension
6) Sleep disturbances
D. If another psychiatric disorder is present, the focus of the anxiety and worry is unrelated to it.
E. The anxiety, worry, or physical symptoms cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or some other important aspect of functioning.
F. The disturbance is n .....
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Genetic Cloning ----
.... factor IX. "Pharming" also produces Protein C in pigs milk, which is used during a stroke or heart attack. Another exciting development is the production of human fibrinogen, which controls bleeding and is being sprayed on shark bites, for example.
Inserting genes has been accomplished to produce human lactoferrin in cows milk, from a founder cow named Herman, who sired a lot of females, carrying this gene. Lactoferrin is used in the intestines of immunocompromised patients to treat GI infections.
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Genetic Cloning And Nuclear Fusion
.... A defensive statement for this would be that these scientists are creating genes and are pushing the scientific envelope. How much further can they go? What if they create something that evolves to withstand forces of nature and science? Anything is possible when you play with something you fully don’t understand. Cancer research is possibly the most important reason for embryo cloning. Neuro-Oncologists believe that embryonic study will advance understanding of the rapid cell growth of cancer .....
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Genetic Engeneering
.... animals with plants and vice a versa. As a result it is possible to make foods with high resistance to whether, temperature, pesticides, etc. therefore crop quality and amount grown would increase. Another area of genetic technology involves inserting genes into plants to make them immune to common viruses, this could increase the crop production. If the crop production could be increased, food would become cheaper and easier to obtain. For economical reasons gene technology is better for the producers .....
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Genetic Engenering -4
.... may have been passed down by their parents ("The Benefits" 1). Just think for one second if you have allergies and how miserable it is in the Spring when all the flowers are blooming and the trees are blossoming. Scientist can take out the gene that makes you allergic to things. "A fertilized ovum could be cloned, and the clone could be tested for diseases and disorders. If the clone is free of diseases than the real ovum would be free of disease too. Then the zygote could be implanted in the womb" (" .....
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Genetic Engineering
.... reported in that article is true. One of the things
he mentions is that the former Soviet Union had the largest big-warfare program in the world, with
32,000 scientists working on it. Much of it had to do with genetic engineering. In one of the projects
they took smallpox, which has otherwise disappeared from the world, and found a way to genetically
introduce into it, without reducing its efficacy as smallpox, either Ebola virus or equine encephalitis
viruses. Nobody seems to know what happened .....
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Genetic Engineering -
.... 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.
The Code of Life
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 DN .....
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Genetic Engineering 2
.... of it. Some of scientist ideals of how to alter this new science to create the perfect human does in-fact sound crazy. But if genetic engineering was regulated to prevent such things the new science could bring wonders to many peoples lives.
The first form of genetic engineering began with a man named Mendel, a monk in the late nineteenth century. He was the first to even formulate the concept of the gene from his experiments on pea plants. Since Mendel, other scientists have continued in agricultura .....
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Genetic Engineering 3
.... The discovery of DNA is attributed to three scientist, Francis Crik, Maurice Wilkins, and James Dewey. All were given the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1962 (Lewin 1).
Each strand of DNA is composed of millions of the essential chemical building blocks of life, chemical bases. "There are four bases Adenine (A), Thiamin (T), Guanine (G), and Cytosine (C). These bases can only be paired in certain order, (A) only with (T), (G) only with (C), and vice versa" (Barnes 180). The order .....
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Genetic Engineering 4
.... would be more appealing to parents than adoption or using sperm and eggs from an unrelated donor. In late 1997 Richard Seed announced that he would attempt to create a child using cloning technology, and his post menopausal wife would be carrying the child. "Seed, with no medical credentials or funding, is not expected to succeed (McFarling 2) . . ."
It is possible to create a full human being by cloning, but the clone does not have to develop into a full human. Inhibitors can be injected in .....
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