A Right to Her Genes by Susannah Gal Department of Biological Sciences State University of New York at Binghamton and Jessie W. Klein Science Department Middlesex Community College “But‚ doctor‚ what should I do?” Michelle was sitting in her OB-GYN’s office‚ having just confronted him with the dilemma she was facing. “My mother died of breast cancer when I was little and now I find out that her mother‚ my grandmother‚ has bone cancer and my grandmother’s brother and my grandfather both have lung
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IMPORTANCE OF FORESTS Introduction Trees are mankind lifeline. If they are destroyed‚ there is no way that human beings can survive. From the oxygen that we breathe in‚ the food that we eat‚ to the clothes we wear‚ we owe it all to the trees. Not only this‚ trees act as purifiers of air and receptacles of our waste products. Trees have great economic value too. We get fuel‚ fodder‚ timber‚ medicines and numerous other valuable products from the trees. It is‚ therefore‚ not surprising that trees
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Four ways to kill best practise. As a consultant all too often I hear the phrase “best practise” thrown around. This comes from the clients that hire us and even worse from my fellow consultants. Clients‚ especially those in large enterprises full of hierarchy‚ rules and rigid structure‚ feel the need to follow this dangerously linear way of thinking as a means to justify change. Consultants use this as a way to dress up old rope and sell it for new prices. Not all best practise methods are useless
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man’s debt is cancelled when they die‚ so Indian farmers are committing suicide so that their families don’t have to suffer * Europe is discussed – they have rules and regulations where they halt the growing of GM crops‚ and there is cross-pollination between a GM farm and a non-GM farm‚ the GM farm is liable for economic damage to neighbouring non-GM farms if they are contaminated with GM material * I think this is a sensible approach‚ but unfortunately in North America it is the opposite
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although few are as important as the honey bee. Honey bees are one of the most important pollinators in the world. Dancing is a form of communication exclusively used by honey bees. Although‚ bees are not only here to get jiggy. Each year‚ the bees’ pollination work is equivalent to $14 billion dollars in the United States alone. On a global scale‚ these bees would make around $215 billion dollars. Without Honey Bees‚ some of our most important crops would take a devastating loss in amount yielded
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Walk down the produce aisle of any supermarket‚ and there are probably a dozen different varieties of apples‚ if not more. One such variety is the SweeTango apple. SweeTango apples are a hybrid fruit‚ not resulting from naturally occurring cross-pollination‚ but created in a laboratory at the University of Minnesota (Seabrook). The parent plants of a SweeTango are the Honeycrisp and Zestar apples‚
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economics reporter on the economic value of honeybees on Thursday 23rd April 2009 pasted that; Honey Bees keep the world alive "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then Man would only have four years of life left. No more Bees‚ no more Pollination‚ no more Plants‚ no more Animals‚ no more man‚ this remark is often attributed to Albert Einstein‚ but few scientists now believe this doomsday scenario will actually happen. Nevertheless‚ the apocalyptic vision is an indication of how important
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Tracing Overpopulation Through the Historiographical Methods of Dr. Paul Ehrlich from the 1960’s to the 1990’s Tracing Overpopulation Through the Historiographical Methods of Dr. Paul Ehrlich from the 1960’s to the 1990’s While driving through the overpopulated streets of Delhi‚ India‚ Paul Ehrlich noticed just how many people were in the world. It took his family a couple of hours just to travel a short distance through the city. Take into consideration
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in New York State. As of 2017‚ there are 17 states that have a Promise Zone program in place. The major forces that pushed for the development of a Promise Zone in Broome County are Broome County Mental Health‚ BT BOCES (Broome Tioga BOCES) and Binghamton University. The application to start a Promise Zone in Broome county arose from the work being done by two federal initiatives: “The SHARE project‚ a Safe Schools‚ Healthy Students grant and the KYDs Coalition‚ a Drug Free Community grant” (Promise
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A flower‚ sometimes known as a bloom or blossom‚ is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta‚ also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction‚ usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower). Some flowers produce diaspores
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