but I have never got a straight answer.” He was able to find out the prawns come from a village in Bangladesh. He discovers a whole area that has been devastated by prawns. Or rather‚ by our appetite for prawns. The old landscape of small farms and mangrove
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Maintaining a Balance Enzymes 1.1 Identify the role of enzymes in metabolism‚ describe their chemical composition and use a simple model to describe their specificity on substrates Enzymes are biological catalysts‚ meaning they are organic and speed up a chemical reaction without taking part in it. This means it has a vital role in metabolism where it ensures that the chemical reactions that make up metabolism can function fast enough to sustain life by lowering activation energy. Metabolism
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Welfare SOC 331 November 10‚ 2012 The Department of Family and Children services was set up in Georgia during the 1930’s The Welfare system started out as a program to help families and individuals who had little or no income. Every month thousands of people in Georgia depend upon receiving their welfare benefits in order to get by. Georgia’s welfare programs offer benefits‚ and services that help people in their time of need. It may include helping them with food‚ shelter‚ and medical
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1.0 Introduction This is an assignment which aims to introduce the background of Tanjung Sepat. Tanjung Sepat was names after a little freshwater fish called “Ikan Sepat”. It is located at Kuala Langat‚ along the Strait of Malacca. It is two-hour drive from Kuala Lumpur. Most of the residences are Chinese. This is because the first settlement was Chinese. Fishing is the first profit earning activity at Tanjung Sepat. Now it has developed in to a popular small town. This is because of growing of
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two-thirds of the Malaysian land. It has about 250 species of reptiles‚ 150 species of snakes and a thousand species of insects. There are around 14‚500 species of flowering plants and trees. Besides the rainforests‚ Malaysia has 1‚ 425 sq km of mangroves. However‚ with the current rate of deforestation‚ it is believed that these forests will disappear by 2020. Deforestation can be defined as the cutting down of trees and forests through different methods of logging or burning of trees‚ for the
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The Gulf of Mexico oil spill began on April 20‚ 2010 in the deep waters and continued for 87 days. Oil was found from the Macondo site in the Florida panhandle and Tampa Bay. The oil and dispersed mixture embedded in the sand continued to kill dolphins and other marine life. (Pallardy‚ 2016) Oil spills can cause long-term environmental damage and can affect marine mammals‚ such as dolphins. Additional research is needed to understand the impact of oil spills on marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico
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come from the words of a foreign visitor in Palawan while they were walking when they saw locals in Palawan eating the raw worms from the woods and they are eating it with just vinegar. The visitor said "Tommy‚ look!” Since then‚ the woodworms from mangrove trees have been known as tamilok. 3. Betute tugak Betute Tugak refers to one of Philippines exotic foods which is basically deep fried stuffed frogs (rice field frogs). It is the specialty of Pampanga‚ a province in Luzon; and the people who prepare
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INTRODUCTION The Niger Delta of Nigeria is among the richest deltas in the world. Other major deltas are either famous for crude oil and natural gas (Amazon in Brazil‚ Orionoco in Venezuela‚ Mississippi in the U.S.A.‚ Mahakarn in Indonesia) or grow mainly rice (e.g. Indus in Pakistan‚ Ganges in Bangladesh‚ Mekong in Vietnam). The Niger Delta however has huge oil and gas reserves and ranks as the world’s sixth largest exporter of crude oil and the second largest producer of palm oil‚ after Malaysia
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SNAPPER FISHING IN MIAMI Snapper is one of the most popular types of fish consumed in Miami. Fishing for snapper is also requires less equipment than other types of fishing. This explains why snapper fishing is highly popular in Miami where commercial and recreational fishing is practised. Snapper fishing is commonly practised near reefs and in clear waters with rapid currents. Shrimp is the most commonly used type of bait although other types of bait are also in common use. However‚ the use of
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There are also two small bands that typically run around the shell that are lightly colored. These snails are usually found in the shady‚ dense habitats in the shallow water‚ as well as above the tide line. They mostly prefer muddy areas near mangrove leaves or under small rocks. Because of this they enjoy living on cord grass that grows in the high marshes along the coast. These snails are sometimes found in the Southern half of Florida or in Brazil‚ but can also be found in the coastal salt
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