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    there are many factors that can be identified in the test and the ways of living of the people that were examined. There are a lot of contradictions having to do with alcohol and if it is wrong or right so we have to analyze perfectly our circumstances and understand our body to see what is right for us. ¨A pattern of regular consumption at least three to four days per week is associated with the lowest risk of heart attack¨. According to a study at Harvard school of public health frequent‚

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    I want to be a member of this website.sorry for cheating you all. Imagine being captivated for life. In a cage‚ locked up when you are so innocent. Zoos have become a controversial issue in our society‚ and from what I am thinking‚ I feel that it’s not right to keep the animals in zoos. So do we have the rights to do that? Generally‚ almost everybody has been to a zoo at least once in their life and I’m sure you can remember yourself as a kid where you adored the wild animals behind the glass walls

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    My Sister’s Keeper Summary Conceived by means of fertilization‚ Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva)‚ who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia. Because of her sister’s dependency on her‚ Anna is unable to live the life she wants; in and out of the hospital constantly‚ she cannot take part in extracurricular activities such as cheerleading or soccer. When Anna turns 13 she goes into renal failure. Knowing

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    much more. The America that I think of is all of the above. The fact that you have the freedom to have a religious say so in what you believe in. The fact that you can decide what you like and don’t like. The Liberty our society has‚ the fact that anyone can have a say so in what our government does or doesn’t do. America knows that freedom does not come free it takes hard working brave men and woman to fight for it‚ and these men and woman put their lives on the line because they now what freedom

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    Genetic diseases are kind of disease caused by the genetic material that makes up a person.They are caused by abnormalities in genes that are referred to as variations.Some of these diseases are caused entirely by genes while others are a combination of genetic and environmental factors.The genetic disorder can also be inherited from parent to child. These diseases are of different types and have different causes.One type is called a single gene disorder‚ Genetic diseases which fall into this category

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    Genetic Engineering is the changing of an organism’s genetic‚ or hereditary‚ makeup to get rid of unwanted characteristics or to make wanted new ones. Genetic engineering is used to increase plant and animal food production. It is also used to help dispose of industrial wastes‚ to diagnose disease‚ improve medical treatment‚ and produce vaccines and other useful drugs. Genetic engineering techniques include the selective breeding of plants and animals‚ and hybridization‚ which is the reproduction

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    In today’s society if you are of African American color you should be scared to even step out of your house. It is sad to say that we live in the twenty first century and not much has changed when it comes to discrimination on black people. If black people were to just listen when an officer pulls them over or even arrest them maybe then violence would not occur. Most of the black people that are arrested are either talking back to an officer or running away from them which then leads to them being

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    Resting membrane potentials Definition: Large nerve fibers when not transmitting nerve signals is about 90 millivolt. That is‚ the potential inside the fiber is 90 millivolts more negative than the potential in the extracellular fluid on the outside of the fiber. The Na+-k+ pump also causes large concentration gradients for sodium and potassium across the resting nerve membrane. These gradients are the following: Sodium ( outside): 142 mEq/L Sodium ( inside): 14 mEq/L Potassium ( outside):

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    1- “PORNOGRAFHY IS HARMFUL TO WOMEN” I oppose pornography because women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects‚ things in scenarios of degradation‚ injury‚ and torture. The harm from pornography is not easily traced to a single source. Hymowitz and Cleveland go to great lengths to point out the complexity of the problem of pornography‚ that harm ensues not just because of what the content of pornography is‚ but also because of how the messages of pornography contribute to the social fabric

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    Different alleles for the same gene Principle of segregation-each gamete has 1 allele of each gene Principle of independent assortment Meisois Results in patterns of inheritance by Mendel Meisois 1 is during which segregation occur and principle of ind. Assortment occurs Linked Genes X-linked trait (or sex-linked) Found on the X chromosome Why important? In males → x-linked traits are often expressed‚ because have only 1 x=chromosome. And no corresponding gene on the Y-chromosome In females

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