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Science & Nature Essays and Term Papers
The African PenguinThe small African Penguin lives in south and southwest Africa. It
only stands about twenty-seven and a half inches off the ground and weighs
about six and four tenths pounds. is black and white.
It has a broad black band that curves around their front and looks like an
inverted horseshoe, and ...
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Skylabwas America's first experimental space station. Some of 's program
objectives were: To prove that humans could live and work in space for extended
periods, and to expand our knowledge of solar astronomy well beyond Earth-based
observations. made much use of Saturn and Apollo equipment. Through ...
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Nuclear PowerProducing energy from a plant is very complicated. The process of
nuclear energy involves the fission of atoms, the release of energy from fission
as heat, and the transfer of heat to electricity in power plants.
The process of splitting the atom is called nuclear fission. Fission can ...
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Coelacanthsare an ancient fish-like vertebrates that first appeared some 350 million years ago, about the time the first creatures emerged from sea to land. In terms of evolution, these ancient "fishes" are more closely related to land animals than to fish. Note the specimen's paired fins. They are ...
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Male Pattern BaldnessAndrogenic alopecia or is a typical pattern of hair loss in men, which is for the most part caused by a single dominant autosomal gene. Other factors include the male hormone androgen, age, and genetic predisposition.
Each month the scalp hair grows at an average rate of half an inch. Every ...
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Hysteriais a very unique and abnormal mental disease. What makes it so interesting is that it causes physical symptoms that someone would not normally experience. “Mental conflicts are unconsciously converted to symptoms that appear to be physical, but for which no organic cause is found”( ...
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Genetic Engineering: Correcting The CodeOften there is a sudden breakthrough in a field of sciences, a key
moment, an experiment, an event that changes people's lives all over the
world. In September of 1990, the first genetic treatment of a human being
with an inherited illness was they key moment or event for genetics. ...
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Ozone DepletionIn this world of rapid change, it's extremely difficult for a company to
stay ahead of the game even using all the resources available to them. So, it's
difficult to imagine the problems they would run into when a group of
environmentalists decide to boycott a substance which is the foundation ...
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No Representation Of Allocentric Space Has Been Found In The" brain"
Critically evaluate this statement.
The question of how animals and humans navigate is a fundamental research problem upon which there has been much experimentation and debate, and so it is necessary to refine the title to a specific point. As Tolman (1948) established that rats can ...
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Lime DiseaseLyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme ...
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The Great ImpostersFinding good day care can certainly pose a problem these days,
unless, of course, you're an African widow bird. When it comes time for a
female widow bird to lay her eggs, she simply locates the nest of a nearby
Estrildid finch and surreptitiously drops the eggs inside.
That's the last the widow ...
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Analysis On Electronic Data ImagingDigiFile has been serving the Houston community since 1992. Originally a litigation support company, they evolved into a total solution service organization for electronic document management. They offer conversion services, both at their production facility and on-site, as well as open ...
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Intranet 2These days Intranets are becoming more and more popular throughout the business world and other types of organizations. Many companies and organizations are already making this change and many more are considering it. The advantages offered by Intranets when compared to other types of networks are ...
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The Bunsen BurnerIn class on Monday. We learn how to use a Bunsen burner. We had to tell
what was the hottest and coolest part of the flame. When we finish that. We had
to take a wire and go up and down in the flame to see what was the hottest part
of the flame. After we did that, we had to take a evaporating ...
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Creatine 3Today in society there is a lot of pressure on the perfect image. Image is the way that everything is judged in the world. So with that perspective in mind, the search for the "perfect body" is what everyone is looking for. But with all of the commotion that is happening, very few people want ...
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Climatic Change And Its Effect On SocietyThere has been a significant climatic change that has taken place
throughout the years on Earth. These changes have effected society in more than
one way. However, there is nothing society can do about the long term influences
of climatic changes. Society has tended to address the short term ...
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Anti-MatterIntroduction
Ordinary matter has negatively charged electrons circling a positively
charged nuclei. has positively charged electrons - positrons -
orbiting a nuclei with a negative charge - anti-protons. Only anti-protons
and positrons are able to be produced at this time, but scientists ...
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Theory Of Evolution“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good... And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping ...
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Fluorescence Study Of Dyes1. Introduction
Coumarin 1 and Sodium fluorescein are two dyes which absorb and emit light in the visible region. By using a spectrophotometer we are recording an absorption spectrum and then determining the molar decadic absorption coefficients, which will be used later to interpret and analyse ...
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InsulationIntroduction
The experimenter is testing on denim, cotton T-shirt material, wool
fabric, thermal underwear, polyester fabric, and a Ziplock bag with no insulator.
From research the experimenter learned that wool is a fine soft wavy hair that
forms all or part of the protective coat of a sheep. ...
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The Human Cloning ControversyWhat is cloning and a clone? The dictionary says cloning is the technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism. A clone is all descendants derived asexually (having no sex or sexual organs; sexless) from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, by fission , by mitosis , ...
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OrangutansAnth 111
In Malay orang means "person" and utan is defined as "forest'. Thus
Orangutan literally means "Person of the Forest". Orangutans are found in the
tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are the most arboreal of the great
apes and move amongst the safety of the trees from one ...
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Marijuana 2The active ingredient in marijuana is the THC which produces the high, which is a feeling of, pleasure a euphoria and wisdom, thoughts flow easily. Marijuana is illegal today but people want to legalize it for medical purposes.
Cannabis is a leafy plant, which grows wild in many of the tropic ...
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The Comparative Abundance Of The Elements- There are 92 naturally occurring elements, only 17 of them make up 99.5% of
the earth's crust (including oceans and atmosphere). - In living things (plants,
animals, people) the six most abundant elements are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. - The universe is ...
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Development Of Charles DarwinIn the development of any one person, the people who touch their lives, in and out, day after day, and the thoughts and feelings that they stirred are summed and that quantity represents a large portion of the individual. When looking at the development of someone with as great an impact as ...
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