Essays Tagged: "microscopic organisms"

"Little Green Men or Just Little Microscopic Organisms? - the question of Life on Mars"

Little Green Men orJust Little Microscopic Organisms? The question of life on Mars is a puzzle that has plagued many minds t ... s microbes or bacteria. Proof of this was found in a meteorite containing the fossils of the microscopic organisms intact. Two highly regarded chemistry professors from Stanford, Claude Maechli ... there was a whole colony of Martians in underground tunnels all over Mars? How did we evolve? From microscopic microbes, right? They may have evolved, too. When I read all of this I am reminded by a ...

(2 pages) 78 0 3.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Time's Oldest Debate.

earth -- a bacterium. Other life forms evolved from the bacterium through natural selection. These microscopic organisms formed symbiotic relationships with each other and produced larger, multicellu ...

(5 pages) 107 0 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Estuaries

s of estuaries.An estuary is a fascinating place from the largest landscape features to the smallestmicroscopic organisms. When viewing an estuary from the air on is practically amazed bydramatic rive ... ey of fish,worms, crabs or clams. Within the sediments, whether mud, sand or rocks, live billions ofmicroscopic bacteria, a lower level of the food web based largely on decaying plants.Estuaries are t ...

(5 pages) 85 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Annie Dillard's "Handed My Own Life"

several times when she was younger, Dillard became spellbound by the scientific world and its many microscopic organisms. From the amoeba to the "euglena with its one red eye," (Chaffee 50) Dillard c ...

(3 pages) 31 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Kingdom Protista and the phyla under it.

tructurally diverse collection of organisms is the kingdom Protista. Most protists are unicellular, microscopic organisms, but a few are complex and multicellular. Protists are also the most diverse i ...

(2 pages) 41 1 4.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Cloning

cloning has beengoing on a lot longer than you thought. Clones can be natural a lot of few cell andmicroscopic organisms clone them self to re produce worms also will clone themselves ifcut up. It is ... and cloning trees with sticks. Know we are thinkingabout cloning people and have cloned things from microscopic organisms to sheep. So asyou can see cloning has scientifically come a long way.

(4 pages) 31 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Bioremdiation of Toxic Wastes

Bioremediation, or biodegradation, is a method that uses microscopic organisms to reduce, eliminate, or contain hazardous wastes into less harmful substances ...

(3 pages) 42 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Does Darwinism Refute Creationism

old question has developed into quite a controversy. Did we evolve over millions of years from tiny microscopic organisms explained through a precise theory of macroevolution, or is the Bible correct ...

(7 pages) 54 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

GENITAL HERPES

s a common sexually transmissible disease (STD). It is caused by infection with one of two kinds of microscopic organisms called herpes simplex virus, types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2). These viruses al ...

(3 pages) 23 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Cells & Organelles Through the Electron Microscope

aking in nutrients, expelling waste, and reproducing. All living things are composed of cells. Some microscopic organisms, such as bacteria and protozoa, are unicellular, meaning they consist of a sin ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

What am I Drinking? - pretend to be writing an article for the schools newspaper and compare bottled water to tap water including different brands of bottled water.

rinking Water Quality address the issue of microbiological, chemical and radiological contaminants. Microscopic organisms such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses are what pose a risk to health. When t ...

(6 pages) 36 0 3.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Asthma - Gather, process, analyze and present information from secondary sources on one respiratory condition caused by environmental factors

in people who are sensitive) in the environment. These include things such as dust mites. These are microscopic organisms found in homes, mattresses, curtains, carpet etc and several thousand can be f ...

(4 pages) 36 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine