Essays Tagged: "Microorganism"
Mononucleosis
ive you an infection, can be transmitted by infection without actual contact, or can be caused by a microorganism. All species of animals are afflicted with infections caused by a wide variety of orga ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Dealing with floods mainly in Canada. Past floods, prevention, flood management etc
en lake in winter. Water is around us all the time and it is very essential to the existence of any microorganism. Water has been praised from different perspectives. From its availability to be inven ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Meteorology
Biology...defenses of the body against bacteria, diseases...etc.
ing the bronchi and bronchioles in the respiratory tract secrete a layer of sticky mucus that traps microorganisms before they can reach the warm, moist lungs, which are ideal breeding grounds for mic ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
This is a detailed essay about the new emergence of SARS. The history, the physiology, the symptoms, and the treatment are discussed.
lly fatal new respiratory disease only recently recognized by scientists. It is not the name of the microorganism that causes the disease - this is suspected to be a virus, although exactly which one ... eeded to generate SARS, or that some other as yet unclear interaction between one of them and other microorganisms cause the syndrome.Doctors at the World Health Organization (WHO) and a number of maj ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
An essay on Louis Pasteur
Subjects: History Term Papers
Biosensor What is a Biosensor?
e context of a sensor incorporating a biological element such as an enzyme, antibody, nucleic acid, microorganism or cell. For the purposes of this tutorial, a biosensor will be defined as:Analytical ... ill be defined as:Analytical devices incoporating a biological material or a biomimic (e.g. tissue, microorganisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies, nucleic acids etc.), intimately ass ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Biology Revision
n identifying the causes of disease: Pasteur discovered that most infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms, or germs. This became known as the germ theory of disease. This also destroyed the t ... e skin forms a tough outer barrier covering the body. The outer layers of skin contain keratin, and microorganisms cannot penetrate it unless it is brokenMucous membranes: These line the digestive, re ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The Use and Abuse of Antibiotics
nti-life'. The most common definition that we use for an antibiotic is: any substance produced by a microorganism that harms or kills another microorganism.There are many different kinds of antibiotic ... that can cripple or annihilate their competitors then they have an advantage. So, even though these microorganisms do not have the ability to decide what substance to produce, through several mutation ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Biosensors combine
e context of a sensor incorporating a biological element such as an enzyme, antibody, nucleic acid, microorganism or cell. For the purposes of this tutorial, a biosensor will be defined as:Analytical ... ill be defined as:Analytical devices incoporating a biological material or a biomimic (e.g. tissue, microorganisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies, nucleic acids etc.), intimately ass ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance can be defined as the ability of a microorganism to destroy or be unaffected by an antibiotic, or prevent it from entering the microorg ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Recombinant & Therapeutic Cloning
nisms or cells. As the bacterium reproduces, numerous indistinguishable replicas, or clones, of the microorganism containing the foreign genetic material are produced. Microorganisms reproduce asexual ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology
Identifying Micro-Organisms
in the resultsCONCLUSION: We managed to observe sterile techniques while also observing macroscopic microorganisms in food, water and the air
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Genetically Modified Crops Position Essay
hniques. The plants have been produced by techniques in which "foreign" genes are inserted into the microorganism, plant, or animal. The foreign genes are inserted into the GMO for some beneficial eff ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology
Groundwork Preparation for Wet Mounts, Smears, and Simple Stains
Through processes know as wet mounts and simple stains, observing living microorganisms through a compound microscope can generate a clearer understanding of their appearanc ... ough a compound microscope can generate a clearer understanding of their appearances and movements. Microorganisms are living things that for the most part cannot be seen through the naked eye. They l ... ell as plants, animals, and all that is a part of the Earth. Harmless as most seem to be to humans, microorganisms are an important relevance of study for human interest in varied perplexities and can ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
The use and abuse of anti-biotics
he bark of a tree, and so on. An antibiotic is any chemical substance produced by or derived from a microorganism that has the capacity in dilute solutions to destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria ... e capacity in dilute solutions to destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi or other harmful microorganisms without damaging the host. The first safe and effective a well-known example is penic ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Drinking water contamination
taminated tap water, we are safe. Yet, incidents in the United States ? such as the outbreak of the microorganism cryptosporidium in Milwaukee's water supply in 1993 that killed more than one hundred ... inal illnesses ? often chalked up to "stomach flu" ? are caused by drinking water contaminated with microorganisms.[4] Such microbial-related outbreaks say nothing about the many other hazards borne b ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Antibiotic Resistance
e recommendations on how to prevent or reduce the problem.Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance can also be introduce ... tand the effects of an antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance can also be introduced artificially into a microorganism through transformation protocols. Antibiotic resistance is a consequence of evolution ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Genetic Screening what are its uses, advantages, disadvantages and ethical issues
words, bio and technology. It is a biological process for purposes such as genetics manipulation of microorganism. It basically means using living things such as cells to create products. It is used i ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology
Globular Protein, X-ray Crystallography
y�Strategy to purify and characterize a globular protein from bacteriaA bacterium which is a microorganism has a storage f protein inside it. Escherichia coli are one of the bacteria which coul ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Organic Farming
ls of biodiversity, it proves that levels of abundance and diversity of wild life. Take for example microorganism in the soil. They are there to give nutrients back to the soil as well as takes nutrie ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions