Papers on Science and Environment
Alcoholism An Intrepretation
Words: 679 - Pages: 3.... miscellaneous other organic materials. The chemical, alcohol, is a depressant and acts on every cell in the human body. Due to this, the central nervous system, along with the pleasure centers of the brain, are affected resulting in a feeling of euphoria and a sense of well being. After repeated exposure, the brain becomes dependent on this drug to unburden itself whenever it feels the compulsion. Several factors that contribute to alcoholism are the individual’s psychology, genetics, culture, and the individual’s response to physical pain.
In order to understand alcoholism, we must first define what scientists classify alcoholism to be .....
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Australopithecus
Words: 306 - Pages: 2.... of the australopithecus fossils that have been
discovered have been found in eastern africa and have been dated between 4.5
million and 1.1 million years old. There has also been evidence that the
australopithecus "man" lived in australia where fossils have also been found.
The first discovery of an australopithecus fossil was made in 1924. The body of
the australopithecus is smaller than humans, but biffer than chimpanzees. Also,
The brain size of australopithecus is bigger than humans at about 475 cubic
centimeters. This is also biffer than the chipanzees, but the brains were not
developed in most areas. For example speech. The australop .....
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The Environmental Impact Of Eating Beef And Dairy Products
Words: 1835 - Pages: 7.... or own too litle land to support themselves. Cattle are also a major
cause of desertification around the planet. Today about 1.3 billion cattle are
trampling and stripping much of the vegetative cover from the earth's remaining
grasslands. Each animal eats its way through 900 pounds of vegetation a month.
Without plants to anchor the soil, absorb the water, and recycle the nutrients,
the land has become increasingly vulnerable to wind and water erosion. More
than 60 percent of the world's rangeland has been damaged by overgrazing during
the past half century.
Cattle ranching has also been linked to Global Warming.
The grain-fed .....
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Sickle Cell Anemia
Words: 2576 - Pages: 10.... disease for six years after he view it.
1910, Dr. Herrick was the first person to publish a medical report on . As the report accumulated, a patter emerged. In 1926, Dr. Thomas P. Cooley and Dr. P. Lee described two forms of sickle cell disease: and sickle cell trait. During 1945, Dr. Linus Pauling discovered that an abnormal form of hemoglobin was the reason for the sickness in sickle cell patients. These two took a train together and started talking about . Castle told Pauling about how the cells in sickle cell patients sickled when their oxygen level is low. Paling was amazed by this conversation and did further research on the .....
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The Big Bang And Steady State Models
Words: 1285 - Pages: 5.... to expand, and the galaxies have
continued moving away from each other ever since. Today the universe is
still expanding, as astronomers have observed.
The Steady State model says that the universe does not evolve or
change in time. There was no beginning in the past, nor will there be
change in the future. This model assumes the perfect cosmological
principle. This principle says that the universe is the same everywhere on
the large scale, at all times.2 It maintains the same average density of
matter forever.
There are observational evidences found that can prove the Big Bang
model is more reasonable than the Steady State .....
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Atomic Theory
Words: 531 - Pages: 2.... have atoms
with different chemical properties."
Scientists weigh gases by holding the same amount of a gas in a
container and then wighing it. In the 20th century, most scientists used
oxygen as the standard gas to compare other gases' weights. It is relativly
easy to measure the weights of liquids and sloids, the same procedure for
gas is followed, more or less. In the early 1960s, though, the
international union of chemistry and physics agreed that there would be a
new standard, carbon isotope (carbon-12).
British physicist Ernest Rutherford found and proved that an atom's
mass is concentrated in its its nucleus, which is the cente .....
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Apple Computers: Biography Of The Cfo
Words: 373 - Pages: 2.... learned from your failures prove that you are able to overcome obstacles and learn from your own mistakes. Lastly, he said to be able to describe a situation that you have resolved or fixed within a group. This illustrates your ability to be a team player, which is an important skill to possess in every job. All these three qualities can differentiate who you are, and that is the stepping stone of becoming a part of a company like Apple.
Whipfler also gave reasons of why he chose to work for Apple. There are two main reasons why he was so attracted to Apple. First of all, Apple is a multinational company that is interesting. Seco .....
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Diverrsity Of Plants
Words: 2857 - Pages: 11.... other pollinators so that
pollen is dispersed rapidly and precisely from one flower to another of The same
species, thus promoting out crossing. Many angiosperms display other modes of
pollination, including self-pollination.
Evolutionary Origins
Plants derived from an aquatic ancestor, but the evolution of their
conducting tissues, cuticle, stomata, and seeds has made them progressively less
dependent on water. The oldest plant fossils date from the Silurian Period,
some 430 million years ago.
The common ancestor of plants was a green alga. The similarity of the
members of these two groups can be demonstrated by their photosynthet .....
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Plant Breeding
Words: 622 - Pages: 3.... corn was grown among the 100
million acres of corn in the United States. But by 1970 the vast
majority of 67 million acres was planted with the hybrid variety, yielding
twice as much corn.
Plant breeders have a definite advantage over animal breeders, because
they can often produce fertile varieties - indeed, new species - by
crossbreeding between species. This is because hybrids are often polypoid.
Polyploidy, as we know, can occur naturally in the wild. Some species of
cotton that we grow are polypodies that probably arose originally by
accidental crosses between different species of cotton.
But breeders do not have to .....
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Future Psychology
Words: 1638 - Pages: 6.... Many of today’s accepted virtues might one day be judged as crimes against humanity and nature, which leads to the question: What kind of world do you want to live in?
Our ancient habit is to stumble backwards into the future. We feel that we as individuals make little difference, as if history and the future just happen at us. Obscure plans, which have guided people forward in the past, have now rendered themselves useless. There are no known maps to show pathways into the future.
We’ll need to consider back to our hearts, common sense and basic human capabilities. We’ll need to consider the deep issues at stake a .....
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