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The Human Genome Project
1265 Words - 5 Pages.... in the US government. By 1988 the Department of Energy and the
National Institutes of Health were working together, a relationship
formalized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. This agreement
was simply to coordinate research and technical activities related to the
human genome. The initial planning process culminated in 1990 with the
publication of a joint research plan, ‘Understanding Out Genetic
Inheritance: The U.S. Human Genome Project the First Five Years FY 1991-
1995.' The goal of the HGP is to generate a series of tools that will
change biological research.
The complete nucleotide sequence of human DNA is approximately
50,000 to 100,000 genes i ....
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Melting Pot Theory
401 Words - 2 Pages.... Now all Americans must be able to speak English, or at least bad English, and they must also follow the laws set fourth by out four fathers, but no two Americans are alike. Take San Francisco for example. Twenty years ago, it was the center for the hippie movement, but just down the street from Haight and Ashbury there is a place called China Town. A place placed filled with Chinese Americans, shops and temples that could be easily mistaken for buildings only found in China . In Ohio, one could meet a Caucasian farmer, a African American businessman, an Amish family or even a reporter who has a strong German background all in the same day. So many different people living ....
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Life Of Octopus Dofleini
1449 Words - 6 Pages.... sexually, and have both male
and female octopuses. Reproduction takes place as follows: The male octopus
uses his tentacle to take a mass of spermatophore from within his mantle cavity,
he then inserts it into the oviduct, in the mantle cavity of the female. This
process occurs at depths from 20-100m and, lasts hours. With female octopuses
receiving spermatophore up to 1m long.
Female octopus seem to prefer larger males as mates and male octopus may
mate with more than one female in their life span, however the male octopus only
lives a few months after breeding, and the female will die shortly after the
eggs hatch.
Incubation can take from 150 days to seven or more mon ....
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Dolphins & Humans: Breaking Barriers Of Communication
2758 Words - 11 Pages.... and significant communication.
The history of dolphins is at least sixty million years old. It is believed that dolphins evolved from cows. In support of this theory, there are traces of hooves on the fins of dolphin fossils. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare took readers back six hundred years before the birth of Christ and told of a boy named Arraign, who was cast into the sea by pirates. A dolphin came to his rescue and carried the boy home to Greece on his back. Plutocrat wrote Thathos, Odysseus' son, was saved from drowning as a young child through the aid of a dolphin. A roman scholar Plink the Elder, who lived in AD 23-69, wrote about a boy named Hermias. Hermia ....
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Depression 7
489 Words - 2 Pages.... disorder. It is diagnosed only by episodes of depression. Episodes can be short or long but are usually brought about by an incident in a person's life. An example of this is if someone close to them dies. The other kind is called bipolar or manic depressive illness, it is recognized by alternating depressed and manic episodes. This is an actual brain disfunction. In the major depression or the depressed phase of bipolar illness, a depressed mood predominates, even though the patient may not be aware of feeling sad. Typically, he or she loses all interest in activities. Symptoms include sleep disturbances, not able to concentrate or to make decisions, loss of appetite or g ....
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Marijuana For Migranes
737 Words - 3 Pages.... before cannabis was banned in 1937, showing that cannabis had a positive effect on people with chronic migraines, mental fatigue, fits of depression and so on. William Osler, the acknowledged father of modern medicine, stated of migraine treatment,”Cannabis indica is probably the most satisfactory remedy”(Russo, 1998).
The best way to describe a study like this is historical. Many of the historical uses of marijuana may have contemporary relevance. As I stated before, there are very few ways to study something that the society feels is harmful to the subject. This is exactly what the research is pointing out by voicing the words of our ancestors. This hi ....
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Acid Rain
1146 Words - 5 Pages.... acid rain
are fossil fuel. Fossil fuel has many usage in our society. Such as to power
electric power plants, industrial boilers, smelters, businesses, schools, homes
and vehicles of all sort. These various energy sources contribute 23.1 million
tons of sulfur dioxide and 20.5 million tons of nitrogen oxides to our
atmosphere worldwide. When fossil fuels are ignited like oil and coal, they
release carbon dioxide, a so-called greenhouse gas that traps heat within the
earth's atmosphere which causes global warming that is taking place right now.
Also, it releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and various metals (mercury,
aluminum) that are released into the atmosphere t ....
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Egyptian Bedouins
1403 Words - 6 Pages.... the belief in the oneness of God and Muhammad as his prophet, as well as belief in all other prophets before Muhammad. The next pillar is prayer. Prayer must be carried out five times a day. The first prayer called Fagr (streak of light) must take place between when the first light of the day is seen until 10:00 am. The second prayer called al-duhr (noon prayer) should be done between noon and the next prayer which is the asr (afternoon) prayer. The fourth prayer of the day is the Maghrib (sundown) prayer. The last prayer is called the Isha (night) prayer. If any prayer is missed at any time of the day for any reason, it can be made up at a later time. The next pil ....
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