most numerous and least studied organisms on earth. It covers almost three fourths of our planet and has the potential to feed the world and supply cures for many diseases. Studying sea plants and animals is a challenge that is becoming easier due to advanced technologies such as deep-sea submersibles‚ sonar‚ lasers‚ videos‚ and satellites. In many cases‚ it ’s simply too hard to make a drug from scratch. The chemistry is too complicated. So what then? Microbes can be grown in vats if researchers can
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Introduction Plants are some of the most important organisms on earth. They perform a multitude of services that keep ecosystem functioning. Plants provide us with food‚ medicine‚ and they perform photosynthesis which converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and in so doing remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere‚ provide us with many everyday products and are very beautiful to look at. (Morgan 2009) Plants provide us with energy through food Food provides humans with energy that allows us to
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Animals have been used in countless numbers of experiments ever since humans first developed a curiosity of how the human body works. Due to opening up a human in ancient times being not only taboo but also considered blasphemous to God‚ animals were used as substitutes to understand the human anatomy. It was relatively recently that humans started to use animals to understand diseases and test new chemicals we have developed. These animals have helped humanity advance to where it is today‚ and we
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How to manage work health and safety risks Code of Practice 2011 Workplace health and safety Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General This Queensland code of practice was made by the Minister for Education and Industrial Relations on 27 November 2011 and published in the Queensland Government Gazette on 2 December 2011. This code commences on 1 January 2012. This code is based on a national model code of practice developed by Safe Work Australia and approved by the Workplace Relations
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Estimated Number of Animal and Plant Species on Earth Believe it or not‚ there are about 950‚000 species of insects No one knows for sure how many species of animals exist on Earth. In fact‚ some 10‚000 species of animals are discovered each year‚ with over one and a half million species already described. Projections for the total number of species on Earth range from 2 million to 50 million. Animal group Number of species Vertebrates Amphibians 6‚199 Birds 9‚956 Fish 30‚000 Mammals
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USING ANIMALS IN RESEARCH SHOULDN’T BE FORBIDDEN Nowadays‚ many scientific researchers use many animals for their experiments‚ which has become a very controversial subject among scientists‚ government officials‚ and citizens. Differences of opinion have emerged on this issue over time in the world. Although some people who are generally animal right activists argue that animals shouldn’t be used in scientific researchers and this should be totally banned‚ others don’t agree
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Should Animal experimentation be permitted? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However‚ what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people seem to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live‚ and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques
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Benefits from using the Internet What is the Internet? The Internet is the mechanism or matrix that connects networks around the world to each other and is generally referred to as the World Wide Web. Since the conception of the Internet‚ those who are not afraid to learn or try something new have benefited greatly in many ways. Businesses as well as individuals reap the benefits from using the Internet on a daily basis. Since the invention of IP‚ or in other words‚ Internet Protocol (Microsoft)
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Composition II Flavia Guberaj 24/01/2014 Should animals be used for different researches or testing products? In different places of the world a lot of researches and product’s tests proceed by using animals. And for decades the debate of “should animals be used for these experiments?” has been inevitable. F. Barbara Orlans‚ in her book called “In The Name Of Science: Issues In Responsible Animal Experimentation”‚ says that the biomedical researches and testing the product’s safety are the
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tasks‚ people‚ risks‚ rules. At my work place each individual from our team has different skills which are: handling and resolving things in a better and quicker way‚ entertaining and communicating with patient‚ good clinical skills‚ mental nursing skills‚ good observer and at details. And all this skills together make us to be a better team. Strong communication and collaboration- effective communication between team members‚ from the manager to the team sets the foundation for a collaboration
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