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- 9511: Genetic Engineering, History and Future: Altering the Face of Science
- ... treatment of dwarfism and interferons for treatment of cancers and viral diseases (Stableford 34). Throughout the centuries disease has plagued the world, forcing everyone to take part in a virtual "lottery with the agents of death" (Stableford 59). Whether viral or bacterial in nature, such disease are currently combated with the application of vaccines and antibiotics. These treatmen ts, however, contain many unsolved problems. The difficulty with applying antibiotics to destroy ...
- 9512: The Effects of Foreign Species Introduction On An Ecosystem
- ... food for the fish which formerly ate the mussels, a new level of biological amplification is inserted. This results in the higher levels containing more toxins than they previously did, which can lead to higher death rates, and lower birth rates, which is an example of a lower biotic potential. Finally, abiotic factors may not be prepared for the new species introduction. If, for example, a forest has a certain amount ...
- 9513: Differences and Effects of Natural and Synthetic Fertilizers
- ... fertilizer burn". This state is where fertilizer produces too many nutrients: this overloads the plants biological systems, and effectively kills the plant. Also, the chemicals often harm plants over time, causing ill health and quicker death than natural fertilizers, as soil organisms die out form over exposure, reducing the soil quality. Plants grown with chemical fertilizers have a greater chance of disease and toxicity, but the initial growth usually offsets these ...
- 9514: Cloning of Animals
- ... made it possible for the cloning of almost any mammal, including humans. To the average person, exactly how the technique works is unclear. Scientist predicted that by making cells dormant and bringing them close to death, something happens to break the chemical locks (barriers) that keep most of the genes inactive. The mammary cell is inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg cell that has already had all of its own genetic ...
- 9515: Bats
- ... starvation in the late winter from lack of energy stores. In an extreme case in Kentucky, during the 1960s where a cave was a tourist attraction ,the population of 100,000 bats starved to death after being awakened so many times. REPRODUCTION Bats have internal fertilization and give birth to highly matured young like humans (Lauber, Honders 75, Ezzel 92). Most bats only have one baby a year. The bats ...
- 9516: An Argument For Animal Research
- ... list continues endlessly. The progress that has been achieved in knowledge as well as safety in medical practice is correlated directly to animal research. It is one argument to control animal research so that needless death of animals are not rendered, but it is absolutely different to argue that animals have rights which supersede human subsistence. "For most of the past decade, the animal-rights movement hasn't merely opposed animal ...
- 9517: Trito-Isaiah
- ... need only to trust in God, and not fear, knowing that the Lord will take care of us. Trito-Isaiahs message, at the time that he preached, was found hard to believe. After his death it became integral to the faith by which Jews survived the exile to Babylon and endured many other historical catastrophes in the generations to come. Christians discovered in Trito-Isaiah the essential promises fulfilled in ...
- 9518: Episcopalianism / Anglicanism
- ... the King of Kent and were allowed to make converts. Eventually, the King even allowed himself to be baptized, and Kent became an independent branch of the Catholic Church (Stendahll 332-335). After Augustine's death, evil times came upon the church. The King died and his son relapsed for a time into heathenism. But, the missionary effort was eventually successful and the papacy was at the full height of influence ...
- 9519: Puritanism During The Salem Witch Trials
- Puritanism During The Salem Witch Trials The Puritans in the time of the Salem Witch trials showed that it was possible for humans to lose all rational thought and blindly condemn people to death. Arthur Miller, a contemporary American playwright, dramatized these proceedings in the attempt to mirror the McCarthy investigations, and show how absurd they truly were. Arthur Miller says of the Puritans, They believed, in short, that ...
- 9520: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity
- ... Merchants, and Herders, and the Sudras who were the laboring class made up of the servants and peasants. Hindus believed in Reincarnation also. It is the rebirth of the soul in another body after death. Hindu people believed the action of the people in their life were rewarded or punished in their next life. The Social affect this religion had on its people was that the caste system and its ...
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