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Mitosis In Cancerous Cells
1530 Words - 6 Pages.... is telophase. Here the daughter chromosomes arrive at the poles and the microtubules disappear. The cytoplasm divides, cell membrane closes inward making two daughter cells.
This is a very complex process which needs to be completed perfectly, in order for the cell to divide and replicate normally. Very often a cell loses its regulation, and begins replicating out of control, that is it becomes cancerous.
Abnormal cell growth is often known as cancer. During which, cancer cells do not respond normally to the body's control mechanisms. They often divide excessively, invade other tissues and, if unchecked, can kill the whole organism. Researchers studying cancer cells in ....
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Digestive Disorders (liver)
395 Words - 2 Pages.... of pus is the bodies white
blood cells forming to protect the liver. However, it collects too
much and that is how the abscess is formed. When you are
diagnosed with amebic liver you are very likely to also have an
intestinal infection from the disease as well. This is not true for all
cases though. Most cases in which both occur are in places of
high temperatures and poor sanitation. Africa, Latin America,
Southeast Asia, and India have many health problems
associated with the disease. The most common way to get this
disease is from one person to another. The other most common
way is through unhealthy food and badly sanitized water. Not
eating proper ....
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Dolphins 2
3526 Words - 13 Pages.... was saved from drowning by a dolphin. Dolphins have also been accounted for in writing. In the play Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, a singer by the name of Arion was sentenced to be thrown into the sea by pirates. Before he was thrown into the sea, he asked for one last wish: to sing a song and then jump overboard himself. The pirates granted him this wish, and he began to sing a high-pitched song. When he was finished with his song, he jumped overboard and was saved by a dolphin which carried him two hundred miles to shore. Obviously, dolphins and humans have been interacting together throughout recorded history.
According to the theory of evolution, it is most ....
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The Future Of NASA
377 Words - 2 Pages.... that we now incorporate
in our daily lives include the vacuum cleaner, pacemaker, pens that can write
upside-down, and the zero-gravity training system. The vacuum cleaner was
originally a great tool for astronauts in outer space. It is now a very helpful
tool for cleaning our homes. The pacemaker is a form of life-support on
spacecrafts, helping astronomers' hearts pump while they are outside of the
Earth's atmosphere. It is used, on Earth, for those who's hearts have problems
with pumping blood. Pens that write upside-down are used in space, where there
is no gravity and writing with pens would otherwise be impossible. They are
convenient tools on Earth when we ....
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Nuclear Energy
858 Words - 4 Pages.... electricity production much easier on the environment.
They produce much of the electricity that fuels our economic growth. They power new industrial technologies that keep our economy growing and improve our global competitiveness.
They cut America's demand for imported oil by nearly 100 million barrels a year—reducing our dependence on foreign oil suppliers and cutting our trade deficit.
The future looks even better. Advanced-design nuclear power plants are now being developed—quicker and less costly to build, better performing, and even safer than today's plants. These plants will supply our children's and grandchildren's electricity—wh ....
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Human Evolution And The Fossil Record
1751 Words - 7 Pages.... for
dating of recent fossils, with good accuracy, up to 50,000 years back. After
5770 years, half of the carbon-14 in a fossil decays to nitrogen-14. Since the
ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 in a living organism remains the same as in the
environment around them because the organism constantly eats and replenishes it,
if it were to die, the ratio would change greatly after many years. It is the
difference between this ratio now and the time is died that allows a date for it
to be established. Potassium-argon dating, another dating method, is possible
due to volcanic ash and rocks found near many fossil sites. Rocks and ash
created in this manner contain potassium-40, b ....
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Science And Ethics
640 Words - 3 Pages.... realized that he never should have tried to play God. There is a fine line between scientific research and experiments that are morally, ethically, and religiously wrong and who are we to cross it?
The first example of man performing corrupt experiments is genetic engineering. In this case, man alters the genes of the fetus. This might be acceptable if the reason for the alteration is a life or death situation. If the baby will not be able to live without the procedure being done, then it is acceptable. But nowadays, doctors are performing genetic engineering to pre-determine the baby’s sex. If parents are now allowed to choose the sex of their child, who can sa ....
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Genetic Engineering And Its Fu
1735 Words - 7 Pages.... us is not morally wrong. It is not inhuman either. Of course, if you believe using animals for scientific research is morally wrong that's your belief, I am stating that genetically enhancing them to be better research specimens is not unethical. My reason behind this is that we don't just do research in order to infect and kill off the mice, we do it so one day we will have a cure for cancer and can save hundreds of thousands of human lives. Of course if you value the life of a mouse over a human then you would see differently. Some fear that this science is too powerful, granted we shouldn't let just anyone be able to modify bacteria, or the human genome, but we shouldn't ....
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