Fall 2012 1:30 p.m. M/W Section Assignment B 60 points Due October 29 Each question is worth 5 points except the ones which are marked differently. Library Catalog Keyword Searching‚ Subject Searching‚ Aauthor Searching and Title Searching. Select one of the topics below to use for this assignment. Highlight the topic that you have chosen. Education of patients by nurses Teenage Violence Marketing with mobile phones Topic of your choice Library Catalog Keyword Searching & Subject Searching
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Assignment #2 – Patterns of Inheritance First: Answer the following question. Which disease types‚ autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive are generally more common / persistent in populations? Explain your answer. (Please do not guess or otherwise invent your answer! Rather‚ do some research and reading‚ i.e. Chap. 14!) Sickle cell disease is a autosomal recessive trait that occurs due to the single base substitution in DNA. Second: Demonstrate this principle by showing the population
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Would you be willing to sacrIfice your hard earned money to buy a pair of hunting dogs? In the book Where the Red Fern Grows Billy was willing to do just that. Everyone agrees that dogs cost money. Some say Billy should have bought the dogs‚ while others say he should not have. Billy should have bought hunting dogs for three reasons: he experienced hunting‚ he learned valuable skills‚ and it brought him enjoyment. The first reason Billy should have bought hunting dogs was that he was able to experience
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The book Where the Red Fern Grows is a book about a man who is getting out of work and as he is walking down the sidewalk he sees some dogs in a fight in the alley way. When he sees the dogs it reminds him of his past when he was a little boy and wanted a two dogs. The story starts with him on a farm. He really wants to get dogs but his family is too poor to pay for them. So he works for two years to earn the money needed for the dogs. He goes to his grandfather to ask about the dogs and his grandfather
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soil that our fruits and vegetables are grown in. To add‚ corn is the largest crop grown in America. Corn is in about 90% of all foods made in the U.S. It is cheap to grow and buy. It may sound like a good idea‚ but corn actually is a large contributor to obesity. Because it is cheap‚ farmers use it to feed animals to help them grow bigger‚ which humans ultimately consume. It is also used in many other products in the form of corn meal or corn syrup‚ which humans also consume. Chips‚ cookies‚ soda‚
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of the specialized underlying structures of these life-forms. In order for us to appreciate these special adaptation‚ we first need to know how a typical plant or an animal cell organelle behaves in different water and solute concentrations. In this lab‚ we will determine the effects of hypertonic‚ isotonic and hypotonic solutions on plant and animal cells. In general when an animals cell’s placed in hypertonic solution it shrivels; a plant cell on the other hand undergoes plasmolysis. When an animal
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It was a warm summer night‚ very calm and peaceful and me and my family were hanging out in a RV that we just got. The dogs were hanging in the porch while we were mostly inside. After a while my Mom decided that the dogs should go back inside. “ You stay in here with Bear while I take Aspen inside” my mom said as she put on Aspen’s leash. I was petting Bear when all the sudden I heard a scream followed by a‚ “ ASPEN GET BACK HERE!!”. Aspen had gotten out of her leash. I tried to follow what was
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Where The Red Fern Grows is an amazing book by an amazing author. The book takes place in the Ozarks‚ around when the main character‚ Billy‚ was ten years old at the beginning‚ and twelve- almost thirteen- years old for most of the book. The story is about a boy and his relationship about two very lovely Redbone coonhounds‚ Old Dan and Little Ann. Along the way to the end of the road‚ there are little entertaining adventures that slowly reveal the traits about the characters. You’ll get so sucked
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Genetics are the instructions that determine an organism’s appearance and distinct characteristics. Genetic engineering is the science of manipulating genes in some way. There are many different opinions on this subject. Genetic engineering could improve diseases or create a “ designer child”. On the other hand‚ it is not natural ‚could have unintended consequences‚ and is sometimes not viewed as moral. In my opinion‚ genetic modification should not be used to change humans cosmetically ‚but could
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Professor of Science at Duke University‚ states that “Technology itself is not evil. Only the misuse and misapplication of it is” (Farahany). Genetic engineering should be used with the purpose of preventing abnormalities and disease alone. With careful regulations by the government‚ that can be done (Krimsky‚
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