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    hormones are produced by the placenta? A: Progesterone‚ Estrogen‚ Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HcG) and Human Chorionic Somatotrophin (HcS) 13. What is the name of the drug that is terratogenic to the newborn‚ causing phocomelia? A: Thalidomide 14. Where is epithelium derived from? A: All three germ layers‚ i.e. Ectoderm‚ Mesoderm and Endoderm 15. Which germ layer forms the urogenital tract? A: Mesoderm

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    scientists. People were worried and anxious to know the reason for the tragedy and the way to avoid the birth of defect babies. After many researches‚ scientists found out that the disabled babies were born to the mother who had taken a medicine called Thalidomide‚ a drug people used to deal with pregnant reaction‚ and was later proved to have teratogenicity to many animals by animal test. Then‚ people realized that animal test must be done before the drug used in treatment to avoid such accident. After several

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    Biology End of Year Revision Quick Recap on Graphs: * Always remember to include units * Put the dependent (thing you measure) along the y-axis. (One going up) * Put the independent (thing you change) on the x-axis (along the bottom) * Don’t join the dots up‚ draw a line of best fit. * Circle anomaly result. Healthy Diet For a healthy diet‚ you need energy. So you need: CARBOHYDRATES‚ to release energy. FATS‚ to keep warm and release energy PROTEIN‚ for growth cell

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    English Language and Composition Section II Directions: The following prompt is based on the accompanying seven sources. This question requires you to synthesize a variety of sources into a coherent‚ well-written essay. Synthesis refers to combining the sources and your position to form a cohesive‚ supported argument and accurately citing sources. Your argument should be central; the sources should support this argument. Avoid merely summarizing sources. Remember to attribute both direct and indirect

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    Medicinal and Healthcare Regulation in the US: An Overview of Major Events Regulation as we know it today‚ particularly in health care‚ is a relatively young concept. According to Brennan and Berwick in their book entitled New Rules they state “Though the roots of the regulatory state in this country can be traced to legislation passed in the middle and latter parts of the nineteenth century‚ regulation assumed its modern aspect in the years of the New Deal” (Brennan and Berwick‚ p.10). The New

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    Animal Testing Is Cruel

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    Animal testing has been going on for years and an estimate of 26 million animals in the United States are used for animal tests. And that could extremely harm the animals that are being tested. Animal testing is cruel because testing animals is harsh‚ drugs that are pass by animal test aren’t safe‚ and could mislead researchers with cures or treatments. In the first place‚ testing animals is harsh and wrong. Some experiments involves force feeding animals‚ water deprivation‚ and forced inhalations

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    Pros Of Animal Testing

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    End Tortures of Cosmetic Testing According to Animals in Research‚ an estimate of 25 million animals‚ worldwide‚ are used and killed through animal experimentation every year. Every single day‚ tons of animals die due to the exposure of chemicals in cosmetics. Over the past few years‚ technology has greatly expanded‚ becoming more powerful and smarter than the average human being. With technology being so advanced‚ why hasn’t animal experimentation been kicked to the curb? Technology

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    throat‚ and even putting chemicals into the animal’s eyes. This type of testing is useless and unnecessary‚ especially considering the fact that animals might react differently to certain chemicals than humans would. A prominent example would be Thalidomide. Thalidomine was a drug that came out of the Germany throughout the sixties and seventies and was stated to be safely tested on thousands of animals. It was then marketed as a wonder drug; an amazing drug which sedated or smoothed pregnant mothers

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    Do you want to see animals abused and killed sometimes for nothing? Animal testing is flawed and can produce very unreliable results. Around 26 million animals are used every year for scientific and commercial testing. These animals are used to determine the toxicity and effectiveness of medications before they test it on humans. Therefore animal testing should be banned. First of all‚ research on animals is sometimes flawed because of biased scientists. According to pro-con.org “87% of the studies

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    some experiments involve genetic manipulation that would be unacceptable to impose on human subjects before animal testing. Others disagree and think drugs that pass animal tests are still not necessarily safe for humans. The 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide‚ which caused 10‚000 babies to be born with severe deformities‚ was tested on animals prior to its commercial release and animal tests on the arthritis drug Vioxx showed that it had a protective effect on the hearts of mice‚ yet the drug went on

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