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Biological Essays and Term Papers
Nature / Nurture Or Both !The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature
(heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment) is taking a new
shape. Through the past decades, psychologists have developed different theories
to explain the characteristics of human-beings; how we feel, think ...
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Artifical IntelligenceHow Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us?
Introductory Paragraph, including thesis statement
I. Description of Artificial Intelligence
A. Descriptions of AI
1. Definition of AI
2. Coined in 1956
B. How AI can be achieved
1. Specialized software
2. Specialized computer systems
3. ...
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Oxygenis required for the release of energy from food molecules (aerobic respiration). Instead of breaking down food molecules completely, muscle cells switch to a form of partial breakdown that does not require (anaerobic respiration) so that they can continue to generate energy. This partial ...
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Interracial AdoptionChildren interracially adopted loose the opportunity to learn about their heritage. Heritage, what is it and how important is it? Can children adopted by people of a different race other than their own learn about their own heritage? Is heritage more important than adoption? Is a child better ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors"Compulsive" and "obsessive" have become everyday words. "I'm
compulsive" is how some people describe their need for neatness, punctuality,
and shoes lined up in the closets. "He's so compulsive is shorthand for calling
someone uptight, controlling, and not much fun. "She's obsessed with him" is ...
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Pursuing A Career In PsychiatryThe prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the human population today is alarmingly high. For instance, major depression afflicts ten to twenty-five percent of women and five to twelve percent of men in their lifetime. Along with that, twenty-five percent of the population suffers from anxiety ...
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Cancer 4Right now, cancer is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990s almost 6 million new cancer cases developed and more than 4 million deaths from cancers occurred. Also more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer and it has been predicted, by the American Cancer ...
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Fire Antshave been in the United States for over sixty years, and almost
every American that lives in or frequently visits the quarantined states which
they inhabit has had an unpleasant run in with these troublesome critters.
Inhabitants of the Southeast who have ever stood unwittingly atop a fire ...
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History Of Cell MembraneIn the early stages of the twentieth century, little was known about cell membranes. Until the early 1950s, the biological cell membrane was rarely mentioned in scientific literature. It was recognised that something was probably there, but hardly anything about it was known. Considering the lack ...
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Why Are Individuals Aggressive??
Aggression is difficult to define, it is a complex phenomenon, and depending
upon the context the term can be made to carry either positive or negative
connotations, it can be attacking behaviour that may be either self-protective
and self-assertive or to the infliction of injury toward oneself ...
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The Human Genome ProjectWalter Gilbert who is a molecular biologist became interested in
undertaking (HGP) in 1987. Robert Kanigel of the
New York Times Magazine wrote "This project ... would reveal the precise
biochemical makeup of the entire genetic material, or genome, of a human
being ... it would grant insight ...
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Bioluminescence In FungiINTRODUCTION
What is Bioluminescence?
The current paper main focus is on bioluminescent Fungi but the basic features
of bioluminescence discussed are common to all bioluminescent organisms.
Bioluminescence is simply light created by living organisms. Probably the most
commonly known example of ...
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck-In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. Cannery Row is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first sentence of the book, describes Cannery Row as "a poem, a ...
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The Family Is A Social InstitutionFamily is a social institution and has different definitions depending on who defines it.
Anthropologists say a culture's biological and marital kinship rules and patterns of reciprocal obligations define family. Structure-functionalists say the patterns of reciprocal obligations among people and ...
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Birth Control Or Legal MurderApproximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the ...
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Charles DarwinMore than a century after his death, and four generations after the
publication of his chief work, "The Origin of Species", may still
be considered the most controversial scientist in the world. His name is
synonymous with the debate that continues to swirl around the theory of
evolution, a ...
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The Sixth ExtinctionSo, what is ? When is it coming and what is its cause? It is happening now, and we, the human race are its cause explains Richard Leakey. This phenomenon Leakey argues, is easily comparable with the big five biological crisis' of geological history, except this one is not being caused by global ...
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Determinism In QuicksandDuring the Harlem Renaissance, many literary works concentrated on celebrating African American heritage. However, many other writers also began concentrating on the darker theme of naturalism. Nella Larsen’s Quicksand illustrates many elements of this movement. These include a biological ...
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New Reproduction TechnologiesDuring the debate on March 15, 2000 which discussed new reproductive technologies (NRTS) issues were raised regarding the positive and negative effects of NRTS. Issues raised by the advocates of NRTS were surrounding infertility, homosexuality, disease, and cloning. All of these factors raised ...
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Evolution Or IgnoranceEducation:
Throughout recent history creationists and evolutionists have argued whether evolution should be a part of America's public education. Whether evolution is science fact, or science fiction. Evolution being a science based on statistics has some faults, although many concepts in ...
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