Biological warfare (BW) — also known as germ warfare — is the deliberate use of disease-causing biological agents such as bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi‚ or biological toxins‚ to kill or incapacitate humans‚ animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons" or "bio-agents") are living organisms or replicating entities (viruses) that reproduce or replicate within their host victims. Entomological (insect) warfare is also considered a type of BW. Biological weapons may
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Bioterrorism Bioterrorism is a type of terrorism that deals with the intentional release of biological agents. It is also known as germ warfare (Medicine Net). Some common‚well known biological agents are bacillus anthracis‚ variola major‚ and ricinus communis. These agents are better known as anthrax‚ smallpox‚ and ricin (Medicine Net). These are just three of the biological agents. Bioterrorism has been around since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (Pbs.org). People back then would load
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Bioterrorism Bioterrorism‚ or a biological attack‚ is the intentional release of viruses‚ bacteria or other biological substances‚ such as toxins and poisons‚ which can cause illness and death among people‚ animals or plants. These agents are usually found in nature‚ but they can be altered to increase their ability to cause disease‚ to make them resistant to current medicines‚ or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment (Bioterrorism Overview 1). They are usually colorless
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event of September 11‚ 2001 made the terrorism in the United States real. On that day when the twin towers was seen on television crumbling down with so many lives taken and with many people overwhelming loss of life that taken place on that day. Biological weapons are intended to deliberately disseminate disease producing organisms or killing toxins in food‚ water by aerosol. Bacillus anthracis‚ the organism that causes anthrax‚ has been bandied about the media and the American public has been intrigued
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helped potentially discover scientific causes for the behavior. Looking at the articles presented it seems that there is much stronger evidence to support the nature or biological cause for homosexuality. One of the first psychological tests done on biological vs. environment was conducted by “Karen Hooker…to test for biological determinism in 1957‚ on a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health….The study was meant to explore the relationship between homosexuality and psychological development
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PERSONAL POTRAIT: A BIOLOGICAL NARRATIVE 2 John C. Carter Capella University Dr. Janice J. Caron August 29‚ 2010 Abstract Eric Erickson is best known for his studies with psychosocial development‚ or the development of a person within a social context. Eric Erickson’s theories focused primarily on the correlation of the release of sexual tension and psychosexual development. The purpose of this paper is for the author to develop a personal portrait integrating Erickson’s developmental
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Biological Science Lesson 1 Zoology - branch of biology that deals with the life of animals. 1. Morphology - studies forms and structure of animals. a. Gross anatomy - performs surgical technique ; dissection (cutting up). b. Paleontology - studies pre-historic forms of animals through fossil. 2. Histology - study of tissues & organs‚ their structure‚ functions & composition at a microscopic level. 3. Cytology - study of the structure & function and its parts at microsopic level or
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be as terrorizing as biological weapons. Biological weapons are much harder to detect and protect against than ordinary terrorist attacks. Anthrax is a biological weapon that makes people very sick and it can kill them within a short amount of time if they do not get proper medical treatment in time. The fact that anyone would want to deliberately infect other people with a deadly virus or disease is sick and demented. The first line of defense against biological weapons like anthrax is
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BIOWEAPONS IN AMERICA AND THE ETHICS INVOLVED TYLER TURNER BIOETHICS 2014 Bioweapons are defined as the deliberate use of disease-causing biological agents‚ such as protozoa‚ fungi‚ bacteria‚ or viruses‚ to kill or incapacitate humans‚ other animals‚ or plants (Johnson‚ 2014). These types of weapons are living organisms or replicating entities (such as viruses) that reproduce or replicate within their host victims (Ravitsky‚ 2009). Bioterrorism is the act of using bioweapons to cause illness
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