Essays Tagged: "Organism"

DNA

otein synthesis. (Miller, 139)DNA is the genetic material found in most viruses and in all cellular organisms. Some viruses do not haveDNA, but contain RNA instead. Depending on the organism, most DNA ... inked to cytosine by three hydrogenbonds. This is known as base pairing. (Miller, 143)The DNA of an organism provides two main functions. The first function is to provide for protein synthesis,allowin ...

(5 pages) 194 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Cloning Today

A clone is a group of organisms that are genetically identical. Most clones result from asexual reproduction, a process in ... t are genetically identical. Most clones result from asexual reproduction, a process in which a new organism develops from only one parent. The one process of cloning, called nuclear transfer, replace ... be discussing the disadvantages and different techniques that result from the cloning of different organisms.First lets start with the history of cloning. The modern era of laboratory cloning began i ...

(4 pages) 190 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Order by Instinct

y think about the life cycle. He shot the buck, and the buck became injured. Then the buck died. An organism is born, it grows, it lives for a period of time, then it dies. The human life cycle is sim ... e a virus is classified, it can be examined, and controlled. Biologists use order to classify other organisms as well. Charles Darwin sought order instinctively by becoming a naturalist. He studied an ...

(3 pages) 66 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Bio engineering

rticular species for a particular outcome.It involves taking genes from their normal location in oneorganism and either transferring them elsewhere or puttingthem back into the original organism in di ... n of cloned genes in bacterial, animal and plant cells.· The ability to take a gene from one organism (e.g. man or tree), clone E. coli and express it in another (e.g. a yeast) is dependent on ...

(2 pages) 94 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

PCR And Its Use

It relies upon amplification technology utilizingthe heat stable DNA polymerase from a thermophilic organism.' (from http://www.genes.com/pcr/pcrinfo.html) Dr. K.Mullis recently received the Nobel pri ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Sleep and Sleeping Disorders

Sleep and Sleeping DisordersSleep, normal, regular state of rest of an organism. In contrast to the waking stated, sleep is characterized by relative Quiescence of physiol ...

(3 pages) 146 0 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Catholic Beliefs vs Individual Beliefs

ens to our body and soul after death.Death is "the ending of all vital functions or processes in an organism or cell" (Encarta). Death is a natural process in life in which all humans are destined to ... hildren and creation have no end, but we have a beginning. When out human bodies break down, as all organisms do, the part of us that is eternal moves on the next stage of life. Some very special soul ...

(5 pages) 309 8 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Sacks vs. Freud, Different Beliefs, Different Treatments

ks attempts to develop in his studies what Barbara McClintock would refer to as a, 'Feeling for the Organism' by becoming so intimately involved with the object in question that a greater understandin ...

(2 pages) 78 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Cloning

Genetic engineering, altering the inherited characteristics of an organism in apredetermined way, by introducing into it a piece of the genetic material ofanother org ... he potential dangers. For example, the introduction of cancer-causinggenes into a common infectious organism, such as the influenza virus, couldbe hazardous.We have come to believe that all human bein ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

The Hot Zone, the Ebola and Marnurg Viruses

d reasonto. "Ebola, the slate wiper, did things to people that you did not want to think about. The organism wastoo frightening to handle even for those who were comfortable and adept in space suits." ...

(2 pages) 115 1 3.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Cloning

Genetic engineering, altering the inherited characteristics of an organism in apredetermined way, by introducing into it a piece of the genetic material ofanother org ... he potential dangers. For example, the introduction of cancer-causinggenes into a common infectious organism, such as the influenza virus, couldbe hazardous.We have come to believe that all human bein ...

(2 pages) 72 0 3.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Plato's Republic, Does Plato Believe There can ever be a Just Society ?

ould be made up of three parts. First, a state is a structure with parts that work together like an organism. If the parts do not work well together then the whole thing breaks down. It must have virt ...

(3 pages) 335 0 4.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Mononucleosis

ou 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 organisms ... submicroscopic viruses to wormlike parasites. When a person has an infectious disease like mono the organism gains access to the patients body, survives, and then multiples. Next, the patient gets the ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Biotech

rticular species for a particular outcome.It involves taking genes from their normal location in oneorganism and either transferring them elsewhere or puttingthem back into the original organism in di ... n of cloned genes in bacterial, animal and plant cells.· The ability to take a gene from one organism (e.g. man or tree), clone E. coli and express it in another (e.g. a yeast) is dependent on ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

"A clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess. About the criminal justice system

m good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or t ...

(7 pages) 134 1 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Portuguese Man-of-War

).The man-of-war is not an actual jellyfish, but a Siphonophor. Also the man-of-war is not a single organism. It is made up of many different organisms that work together. These organisms are called p ... tackers and prey.4 A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms and is capable of causing disease when introduced into the body tissues but is often also ...

(2 pages) 34 0 3.0 Mar/1992

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Leprosy ; includes what bacteria it is caused by, the orgin of the disease, how many people are affected by it in the united states and in alaska during 1999 and 2000, and more. 3 pages long.

ges, all sizes and all races.Another name for leprosy is Hansen's Disease. Leprosy is caused by the organism mycobacterium leprae. The pathogen that carries it is bacteria. Throughout the years people ...

(2 pages) 65 2 4.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Discuss critically the validity of the contention that the motivation to work well depends on more than a high salary and good working conditions.

the force or process which impels people to behave in the way they do; Newcomb (1950) said that an organism is motivated:' when - and only when - it is characterized both by a state of drive and by a ...

(6 pages) 482 1 4.1 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Ebola

It kills nine out of ten of its victims. There is no vaccine, no cure.A virus is a disease-causing organism, that lives in a cell of another living thing. By itself, a virus is a lifeless particle th ... e host in the process. Viruses cannot live for long outside a cell. They must be carried inside the organism by some means and then transported through body fluids, to the cells.As the virus reproduce ...

(5 pages) 87 1 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The process of mitosis (cell replication)

tical to the original (parent) cell. This process (mitosis) is used for growth and repair within an organism (and also for asexual reproduction).There are five main stages to mitosis, called Interphas ...

(2 pages) 81 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology