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- 5471: Genetic Engineering: A Leap In To The Future Or A Leap Towards Destruction
- ... Wilkins, and James Dewey Watson in 1951. They were all later accredited with the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1962 (Lewin 1). "The new science of genetic engineering aims to take a dramatic short cut in the slow process of evolution" (Stableford 25). In essence, scientists aim to remove one gene from an organism's DNA, and place it into the DNA of another organism. This would create a ...
- 5472: Cloning And Its Implications
- ... he or she wishes. Whatever has created people, gave them the power to reproduce to carry on the race. Should society mess with that power? Are people meddling where they do not belong? Life is short, and at an early age, one is taught to value life for it is precious. Cloning will be teaching those to take life for granted. Who cares if someone dies? Scientists can always make another ...
- 5473: The Beaver
- ... 4 m (8 ft) wide and up to 1 m (3 ft) high. The floor is carpeted with bark, grass, and wood chips, sometimes with special storerooms adjoining. The pond lodge is built either a short way back from the edge of the bank, or partly hanging over it, with the front wall built up from the bottom of the pond. The lake lodge is built on the shelving shores of ...
- 5474: A Study of B.F. Skinner and Behaviorism
- ... generated is successful in preventing full-scale occurrence, it also evokes reflexes characteristics of fear, anxiety, and other emotions" (Skinner, 1953, p. 191). It is because of these examples that punishment, although works in the short-term, is not Skinner's choice of a reinforcer. There are several other ways to reinforce without the use of punishment. Certain behaviors can be eliminated, especially in young children, by letting time pass in ...
- 5475: Nuclear Power: Worth the Risks?
- ... Risks? The world's natural resources are being consume at an alarming rate. As these resources diminish, people will be seeking alternative sources by which to generate electricity for heat and light. The only practical short term solution for the energy-crisis is nuclear power. Nuclear power, however is not as safe as burning coal, gas or oil in a factory it is in fact, much more dangerous, There are dangers ...
- 5476: Genetic Engineering, History and Future
- ... Wilkins, and James Dewey Watson in 1951. They were all later accredited with the Nobel Price in physiology and medicine in 1962 (Lewin 1). "The new science of genetic engineering aims to take a dramatic short cut in the slow process of evolution" (Stableford 25). In essence, scientists aim to remove one gene from an organism's DNA, and place it into the DNA of another organism. This would create a ...
- 5477: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... John Eckert, Jr. in the 1950's. Together they had formed the Mauchley-Eckert Computer Corporation, America s first computer company in the 1940's. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the larger Remington-Rand Corporation. Eventually they built a working UNIVAC computer. It was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951 where it was used to ...
- 5478: Bach
- ... People today look back to his writings and works to both learn and admire. He truly can be considered a music history great. Bach, who came from a family of over 53 musicians, was nothing short of a virtuosic instrumentalist as well as a masterful composer. Born in Eisenach, Germany, on March 21, 1685, he was the son of a masterful violinist, Johann Ambrosius Bach, who taught his son the basic ...
- 5479: The Internet
- ... encounters more information than a person reading in the library for a whole year. It is the convenience of the Internet that allows a person to go through an enormous amoung of information in a short period of time. This information community can pull the minds' of users closer together, thus making the world smaller. The Internet is full of people who are requesting and giving out information to the ones ...
- 5480: The Big Bang and Steady State Models
- ... a portion of this randomness happened to form a bubble, with a temperature in excess of 10 to the power of 34 degrees Kelvin. Being that hot, naturally it expanded. For an extremely brief and short period, billionths of billionths of a second, it inflated. At the end of the period of inflation, the universe may have a diameter of a few centimetres. The temperature had cooled enough for particles of ...
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