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- 251: Proposition 187: Don't Mess With Texas
- ... no boundaries between two lands. In fact, why should they refuse to give treatment because a person happens to be on this side of the Rio Grande when they fall ill? After all, "bacteria and viruses distribute themselves without regard for national borders" (Gaffney 228), and "diseases like tuberculosis do not check for immigration status" (Health 248). Some citizens might believe that diseases like tuberculosis were a thing of the past ...
- 252: Cloning 4
- ... losses being the religious, moral, ethical, and social concerns that it poses on todays society. A clone, as defined in The Human Genome Project, is; 1. a population of genetically identical unicellular organisms or viruses arising from successive replications of a single ancestral unicellular organism or virus. 2. a recombinant clone. 3. the fragment of foreign DNA contained in each member of a recombinant clone. 4. a population of identical ...
- 253: Personal Writing: My American Dream
- ... taught me to think about what I might do in order to help alleviate some of the suffering. I often witnessed people dying from leprosy and seeing the disease spread; after seeing diseases caused by viruses carried by Black flies, I decided that I could do something to help people overcome some of these kinds of hardships. I set my hopes on becoming a part of the medical profession to help ...
- 254: Computer - Hacking
- ... adequate to purchase anti-virus software with a new computer, install the anti-virus software, and forget about that software. The virus definition file for the anti-virus software should be updated periodically, because new viruses are discovered every day. For important companies or organisations it is recommended to have two different kinds of computers. One to connect to the internet, or, to a so called intranet. The other computers should ...
- 255: Biological And Chemical Weapons
- ... Barbara, California, postulated that an aerosol attack with anthrax spores on the New York City area would result in more than 600,000 deaths (Hardy 1998). Biological warfare agents include both living microorganisms (bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and fungi), and toxins (chemicals) produced by microorganisms, plants, or animals. Writers on the subject have produced a long list of biological warfare agents that terrorists could potentially use. Among those mentioned have been: anthrax ...
- 256: Biological And Nuclear Weapons
- ... the area is.In third world nations, for example, the death toll could be greater because of the fact that they don't have the necessary medical equipment to stop the spread of germs and viruses. These weapons are ready to be used at any time. With recent conflicts between Iraq and the U.S. & Britain, and also India and Pakistan, the threat of unleashing the power of such a weapon ...
- 257: Celiac Sprue Disease
- ... the celiac disease-associated tissue-type antigens, but obviously not all of them develop the disease. Other unknown factors begin the chain reaction of immunologic injury. One possible cause is infection with common agents as viruses. At least one virus has been shown to posses a similar protein composition to toxic fractions of gluten. Theoretically, infection with this virus exposes the immune system to an antigen that is "shared" with the ...
- 258: The Linux Operating System
- ... a second account for running applications, and a third account for running unknown code downloaded from the internet. This allows Linux to explicitly control what programs can do, so that untrusted code can't spread viruses to files it doesn't own, and buggy application code can't crash the operating system because it can't access any files or hardware it hasn't been granted permission to. A single user ...
- 259: Dna 2
- ... length. Bacterium uses the Restriction enzyme as a form of defense mechanism. Restriction endonuclease, a protein produced by bacteria that cleaves DNA at specific sites along the molecule. It is used to defend against bacterial viruses called bacteriophages, or phages. A phage infects a bacterium by inserting its DNA into the bacterial cells so that it might be replicated. The Restriction enzyme prevents replication of the phage DNA by cutting it ...
- 260: Dna 4
- ... characteristics. These combinations are responsible for making me look different from you. The idea that DNA copies itself was proved in the famous 1952 Hershey-Chase experiment. In this experiment they prepared 2 samples of viruses, one in which the DNA was radioactive isotope of phosphorous, and the other in which the protein was labeled with radioactive isotope of sulphur. After some time it was visible that radioactive phosphorous was present ...
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