Koch dad located the sticks‚ proving that they grew and were the cause of anthrax. Koch had proved that diseases could be passed on through the blood as long as the microbes causing the disease were present there. This discovery can lead to preventative measures to help limit the spread of diseases. Koch’s discovery presented that microbes could use an organism’s blood as a method
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ill‚ impeding the development of effective treatment options. Germ theory’s emphasis on microbes created opportunities for preventing and treating disease that were once considered fatal. The germ theory’s emergence occurred during an opportune time because the leading causes of death were infectious
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“About 4 billion years ago‚ microbes appeared on earth and about 130 years ago the first microbe was discovered” (Crawford ix). Microorganisms are the simplest and smallest form of living things on earth and they are very powerful. Microbes can be used for ecological purposes‚ some are also pathogenic and others have helped in the medical field to create antibiotics. The author‚ Dorothy H. Crawford is Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine
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hospital room were already stressed out from having to cope with a mysterious illness‚ and it didn’t help at all that they were having trouble communicating. One of them was the patient‚ a small‚ timid man‚ sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe and with only a limited command of the English language. The second‚ acting as translator‚ was his wife‚ worried about her husband’s condition and frightened by the hospital environment. The third person in the trio was an inexperienced young doctor
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10- Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock A stable source of food like livestock can have a lot of negative consequences. Although food production spread at unequal rates‚ many people gained access to it right away. Naturally‚ it seemed like a good thing because the population size was increasing while the supply of food was slowly getting lower. This allowed people to gain access to a variety of foods from plant and animal domestication. However‚ what those people didn’t know was that human diseases
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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Komodo Dragon On Labor Day‚ I went to the Colchester Zoo and saw this fascinating creature called the Komodo Dragon. It seems to blend with its natural surrounding which makes it harder to see; however‚ it was the biggest lizard I had ever seen. I suddenly began to wonder‚ why do they called it a dragon? When the name dragon is publicized‚ the first thing that comes to mind is a fire breathing dragon that can fly; like those suggested in story books and seen in animated movies. Komodo Dragon is
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vincristine from the rosy periwinkle to treat childhood leukemia. * Recreational‚ Aesthetic and Scientific Value‚ for example sport fishing and hunting to hiking‚ camping‚ bird-watching‚ photography. * Intrinsic Value. For example‚ many hunters kill deer for its profitable values. 4. Game animals are preserved by using hunting quotas; hunting and trapping fees; monitoring of game populations with adjustments of quotas; excise tax on hunting‚ fishing‚ shooting‚ and boating equipment;
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Is there life on other planet? The life in the Earth was created long before‚ even before the existence of human being. For many years‚ scientists have been researching if there is any life on other planets‚ or the Earth is only the planet that consist life. There is no sufficient evidence to prove that life on other planet exists‚ however‚ scientists have found some evidence of life on other planets like water on moon‚ old fossil‚ evideince of having some mocroscopic organism. Evolutionists have
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found in Eurasia‚ and one in South America. This gave the Eurasians a huge advantage as a civilization. This allowed them to begin working towards agriculture as a civilization‚ while many of the people in the “new world” rarely developed past a hunter gatherer civilization. These environmental advantages were also enhanced by another fact that Diamond touches upon in his book that‚ “Eurasia’s large landmass and long east-west distance increased these advantages.” Crops and
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