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- 881: Genetic Engeneering
- Human Awareness Essay Should genetically engineered food be grown and sold in South Australia? Recently more and more foods that we buy from the supermarket are involved in the manipulation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) also known as genetic engineering or gene technology. but should genetic engineered food be sold to us the consumers even if we don t know that it has been altered? Like every issue genetic ...
- 882: Gene Therapy 2
- ... all or be treated as merchandise? Patenting any kind of DNA sequences is just like patenting life itself, and from history we know that the ownership of any human being is wrong. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid sequences in an individual can thus be considered analogous to a piece of property. Another question about gene therapy involves every person's right to true genetic inheritance instead of artificially manipulated ones. To many ...
- 883: Future Psychology
- ... rearrangement, spiritual distribution, and foreign intervention, without fully grasping how such marvel might actually affect us all. If our incomes, comforts, children, or annual holidays are hit by such a change, how will we feel? Rain falls on good and bad people alike. There might be no descent of good-hearted hosts or superstars, and there could be an almighty showdown. One characteristic of our time is that the events with ...
- 884: From Legend To Science The Health Benefits Of Tea
- ... for a single day. (Binglun 334) Zhang Binglun refers to modern studies that that lend scientific support to ancient claims of tea‘¦s medicinal properties: ‘§Experiments made on guinea pigs reveals two-thirds less fatty acid in the faeces of animals that have been given 10ml. of tea after each meal than in the controls.‘¨ (Binglun 335) He concludes, ‘§it is not without scientific basis that tea drinking has since ancient ...
- 885: Forests And Oceans As Carbon Sinks
- ... the Antarctic ocean with iron increasing the growth of phytoplankton and algae. 3) Near the ocean surface, turbulent motions promote the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the ocean through the formation of weak carbonic acid. This differs in cold and warm oceans. Approximately twenty-two units per year go from the cold ocean into the atmosphere and about thirty-five units come back, making the cold ocean a net sink ...
- 886: Forensic Science
- ... criminal violence, accidents, or suicides. Computer technology now allows law enforcement officers o record fingerprints digitally and to transmit and receive information for quick identification. Recent developments in technology allows scientists o examine the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or genetic material of blood, hair, skin, or semen to see if they belong to the victim or the suspected criminal. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a lab can clone the DNA from a ...
- 887: Five Components Of My Humanness
- ... opinions and nobody has the right to judge another by their differences. I live by many life philosophies, but one of my favorites is "If you want a rainbow, you must put up with the rain". Other philosophies I believe are "Dream as you'll live forever. Live as you'll die today", "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're always right", "We are all ...
- 888: Fire 2
- ... of +15ΊC. Obviously, it isn't a steady +15Ί C everywhere on the planet. Some places are perpetually frozen, such as the polar ice caps. Others are constantly hot and humid, as in the tropical rain forests. Other regions, like here in Canada, have highly variable seasonal climates-warm, wet summers; long, cold winters. What is clear is that climate varies widely from place to place on the planet ([On-line ...
- 889: Fertilizers
- ... pressure in steel tanks. Three solid nitrogen fertilizers are ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and ammonium phosphate. Two common phosphorus fertilizers are superphosphate and triple superphosphate. Phosphorous fertilizer is made by treating phosphate rock with sulfuric acid. Potassium sulfate and potassium nitrate are used on crops that are harmed by chlorides. The term straight fertilizer stands for any material that supplies one of the three principal macronutrients. The three macronutrients are nitrogen ...
- 890: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... et al., 1995) found that the lowest RBC membrane levels of PUFA were in the 'worst-state' schizophrenics. Furthermore, Peet and colleagues found "reduced levels of omega-6 PUFA correlated with plasma levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), suggesting that there was increased oxidative breakdown of these PUFA in our patients" (Peet et al., 1995). Peet et al. (1997) also found this to be the case in untreated schizophrenics from ...
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