3.1.1. Why does life thrive in the tropical rainforest? The tropical rainforest is very rich in water and food thus life thrives. We all know that food and water are the things that animals need the most for their survival. It also has a warm temperature due to the constant energy that the sun provides. The plants need the sunlight for the process of photosynthesis to be completed and use it to derived energy. And the plants serve as the food for some animals and these animals serve as the food
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Well‚ I could. I could go off‚ in the hills there. Some place I’d find a cave." Only a true loving caring friend would say these words‚ and in fact‚ it was from Lennie saying how he was willing to go live in a cave just so George could live a happier life without him. However‚ this is juts one example of the caring and compassion each other give to each other in "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. This adventurous
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It is mid summer‚ you are sitting in the grass at your local park. The breeze is blowing through your hair and the sun is shining on your skin. You start to hear a faint buzzing in your ear‚ steadily getting louder. You look out the corner of your eye and catch a glimpse of yellow and black. You go to pick up the magazine sitting on the ground beside you‚ slowly raising the book‚ ready to strike the invader. WAIT! Stop to think about what you are doing. You are about to brutally murder one of the
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Intro to Microbiology: Gram stain: Gram + Gram - Exotoxin Except Listeria has endotoxin Endotoxin Except Capsules Strep pneumo VERY Dangerous: (Some Strange Killers Have Pretty Nice Capsules) 1. Salmonella 2. Strep 3. Kleibsiella 4. Hemophilus B 5. Pseudomonas 6. Nisseria-(largest capsule- most likely cause of any toxicity) 7. Citroacter Gram (+) Gram (-) N-acetyl muramic acid (Nam) + N-acetyl glucosamine (Nag) = Peptidoglycan wall Contains
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A tropical jungle is an awesome place. I had the opportunity of visiting one recently.My friend Rahim‚ who works as a forest ranger‚ took me along on one of his trips into the jungle. I had wanted to experience for myself first-hand what he had always spoken about.The moment we entered the jungle‚ a sort of semi-darkness enveloped us. The sky was almost completely shut out by the canopy of leaves high above us. At ground level‚ thick vegetation grew in every direction. The air was damp and had a
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healthy bathed together. The baths were cleaned out about every two weeks‚ so those viruses were spread throughout the baths‚ multiplying every moment of the day. Many of the diseases spread in Rome were deadly‚ such as malaria‚ tuberculosis‚ typhoid fever‚ and gastroentitis. The most deadly diseases in Rome were affected by temperature‚ which causes seasonal plagues. The Fall of Rome Poor political Leadership Gracelyn Gutierrez Rome‚ originally quite small‚ was then a vast area‚ spreading from
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Symptoms of sepsis are usually nonspecific and include fever‚ chills‚ and constitutional symptoms of fatigue‚ malaise‚ anxiety‚ or confusion.[12] These symptoms are not pathognomonic for infection and may also be observed in a wide variety of noninfectious inflammatory conditions. In addition‚ they may be absent in patients with serious infections‚ especially in elderly individuals. Because systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)‚ sepsis‚ septic shock‚ and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
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Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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persons and compared with a random sample of half the available medical records for persons who had tested negative 31 of 67 persons -Among the 28 people who tested positive‚ illness onset occurred during August 26-October 6. -Symptoms included fever‚ headache‚ myalgia‚ and pharyngitis. -Three persons attended one school‚ six persons were employees of the hospital; no other common exposures were reported. Defensive measures against Mononucleosis -Wash hands frequently -Avoid close contact
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The tropical rain forests once blanketed the Earth like a wide green belt around the equator. Just a few thousand years ago forests covered 14 percent of the Earth ’s land surface‚ or 5 billion acres. Humans already have destroyed half of this rain forest area‚ with most damage occurring in the last 200 years. Many of the main causes of the rainforest destruction include: logging‚ agriculture-shifted‚ cultivators‚ agricultures-cash‚ crops and cattle‚ ranching‚ fuelwood‚ large dams‚ mining and
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