How alcohol intake can impact your baby Drinking alcohol even in small amounts‚ may affect the baby’s health‚ confirm experts. When pregnant‚ mothers-to-be are not expected to drink and are discouraged to even sip a wine‚ which may have an impact on the baby. Alcohol just like other substance abuse‚ can cause harmful effects. But how do we determine this? How do we know that alcohol can and does have an impact on the child? Alcohol can pass on to the baby from the mother via the blood stream. It
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The Physical Effects of Alcohol on the Body Alcoholism is a disease which‚ in many cases‚ appears to be a genetically transmitted biochemical defect. However‚ in other instances‚ it appears to be caused by overwhelming bombardment of the physiology of the body by repeated episodes of heavy drinking resulting in the incapacity to handle alcohol normally. Psychological and/or social pressures may aggravate the disease. It is characterized by a typical progression of drinking behavior that requires
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1) http://www.youngmenshealthsite.org/alcohol_effects_on_brain_and_body.html Drinking alcohol: Slows down your reaction time Makes you less coordinated Impairs your vision Makes it harder to thinking clearly and make good decisions Getting “drunk” (or intoxicated) is your body’s reaction to drinking too much alcohol. This happens when someone is binge drinking. Additionally‚ when you’re drunk: Your brain function is impaired Your blood vessels dilate; this means that you feel warmer‚
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To examine the rate of alcoholic fermentation using various carbohydrates. Hypothesis: If the yeast is placed in 5% glucose or sucrose solutions‚ then carbon dioxide production will increase over time. If boiled yeast is placed in a 5% sucrose solution‚ then carbon dioxide production will remain constant. Variables Independent variable: Carbohydrate solutions (5% solutions of glucose and sucrose) and boiled yeast Dependent variable: Rate of reaction of alcoholic fermentation as calculated by
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3 Yeast Metabolism Metabolism refers to the biochemical assimilation (in anabolic pathways) and dissimilation (in catabolic pathways) of nutrients by a cell. Like in other organisms‚ in yeast these processes are mediated by enzymic reactions‚ and regulation of the underlying pathways have been studied in great detail in yeast. Anabolic pathways include reductive processes leading to the production of new cellular material‚ while catabolic pathways are oxidative processes which remove electrons
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Saccharomyces yeast is in conflict with the cell host‚ this plasmid cost the host through using the cells’ resources ; meaning a burden on the host to synthesize more proteins as well as increasing the amount of DNA the host cells needs to accommodate. What is the key result of this experiment or study? The results of the experiment come to prove that the higher plasmid copy numbers of 2 μm come at a consequence of a greater fitness cost to the host cell‚ seen through a decrease in growth rate. What
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EFFECT OF CONCENTRATION ON REACTION RATE The aim of this experiment is to find the effect of varying the concentration of iodide ions on the rate of reaction between hydrogen peroxide and an acidified solution of potassium iodide: H2O2(aq) + 2H+(aq) + 2I⁻ → 2H2O(l) + I2(aq) The course of this reaction can be followed by carrying it out in the presence of small quantities of starch and sodium thiosulfate solutions. As the iodine molecules are produced they immediately react with the thiosulfate
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The effect of nutrient concentration on duckweed growth Gina Neonakis Biology 203L:11 Biology 203:10 November 14‚ 2011 Abstract Lemna minor‚ or duckweed‚ is a small plant that floats on the surface of stagnant water that is usually rich in nutrients. Phosphorus is an important macronutrient in the growth of aquatic plants. We tested the effect of phosphorus on duckweed population growth using a control medium rich in nutrients and compared it to the population growth in a medium that lacked
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Compare the Rate of Carbon Dioxide Production by Yeast under Anaerobic Conditions using different Carbohydrate Substrates. Hypothesis. The hypothesis that I draw is that "" out the five carbohydrate substrates that I will use‚ Glucose will produce the highest volume of Carbon Dioxide at every five-minute interval. Null Hypothesis. The null hypothesis that I am composing is that "" the five carbohydrate substrates that I am to use will not produce any Carbon Dioxide. Scientific Research. Under
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conducted to determine if the reaction rate changes in response to a variation of acidic‚ neutral‚ and basic solutions. The experimental results indicated that the basic/high pH solution has a faster rate of reaction in the solution. Introduction Enzymes are proteins that catalyze and convert molecules into combinations of other molecules which is necessary for the functions of human life. These enzymes are affected in the presence of a high concentration of Hydrogen ions resulting in a disruption
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