With the rise of many meal replacement drinks‚ there has yet to be any research into their effect on the human gut microbiome. The most extreme version of these replacement drink is a product called Soylent‚ which has all the needed vitamins and calories to be a complete food replacement. Previous studies have shown that a switch in diet can cause changes within the microbiome in as little as a single meal. While the proper nutrients are still present within these drinks‚ there could be unknown effects
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The night of the Open Door event was a campus-wide event‚ but I mostly went to the Frankenstein exhibit and the engineering events. Two different concepts in the Frankenstein exhibit stood out to me. What first stood out to me was the project where Myoglobin which is a protein that is normally found in meat being engineered into an edible plant-based one such as a tomato in the example used in the exhibit. The second concept that stood out to me was growing human skin which is understandable‚ but
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Jared Diamond is… interesting. The argument that Jared Diamond makes in his article‚ “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”‚ is completely refutable. There is very little evidence in the article that makes sense‚ and most of it appears to be that Diamond just has a grudge against the laziness of the modern world. This is where Diamond and I agree. The modern world is incredibly lazy. We now live in a world where fast food is a food group‚ and technology is being used incorrectly‚ resulting
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The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether Smeddy the Wolverine was carrying either an illegal substance or was truly carrying a harmless‚ cooking ingredient‚ by comparing the physical and chemical properties of different cooking ingredients. During the experiment‚ four different substances (cooking ingredients) were tested on‚ plus the substance on Smeddy‚ with three different liquids. The five substances tested on were baking powder‚ baking soda‚ cornstarch‚ sugar‚ and Unknown A (the
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In 1794‚ Eli Whitney invented a simple machine called the cotton gin. The main purpose of this machine was to automatically separate the cotton fibers from the seeds. Similar machines already existed for long-staple cotton‚ but they did not work with short-staple cotton. The basic concept was the same‚ using brushes to separate the two parts of the cotton. Whitney’s design‚ however‚ used spiked teeth to pull the fibers from the seed more effectively than previous machines. Whitney’s cotton gin only
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A Nebraska cornhusker frets as he surveys his drought-stunted crop. A Nigerian yam farmer digs up shrunken tubers. A Costa Rican coffee baron lays off hundreds of workers because a fungus has spoiled his harvest. A poor Indian cotton farmer discovers his crop infested with insects. Such dilemmas are becoming more and more prevalent in our world plighted with drought‚ climate change‚ and other natural devastations to plants. However‚ the rapid population growth of humans makes overcoming these challenges
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The trial was carried out at the Teaching and Research farm of The College of Education‚ Lanlate to determine the growth characteristics and yield effects of plant spacing and intercropping maize and cowpea. The experimental design used was Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) six treatments and five replicates. The treatments were as follows; (1) Cowpea intercropped with maize at 50 X 50cm spacing; (2) Cowpea intercropped with maize at 25 X 25 cm spacing; (3) Sole maize at 50 X 50cm spacing;
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Natalie Jones APES‚ 4th period 8/8/15 Silent Spring Work 1. Carson’s first chapter explains the title of her book. Why is it called “Silent Spring”? It’s called Silent Spring because the season of spring‚ usually filled with singing birds and playing children‚ has become still and quiet because the people of the town have somehow killed the wildlife and poisoned their environment. She’s warning her readers what could happen if the issues she explains in her book are not addressed. 2. Why does
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How would you feel if I told you that the food you’re eating was made in a science lab? Genetically modified organisms‚ or GMOs‚ are the outcome of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially manipulated into the genes of an uncorrelated plant or animal. Crops are often genetically modified to be resistant to pesticides so farmers would be able to spray them without harming the crop itself. However‚ there are many consequences regarding consumers’
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Multinational dairy products corporation‚ Lactalis‚ faces lawsuits due to contaminated baby milk formulas‚ according to the news. More than 12 million boxes of powdered baby milk products have been recalled from 83 countries. The products were contaminated salmonella bacteria‚ which causes a potentially fatal food poisoning. Food poisoning is an illness caused by eating food sources or products that have been contaminated with bacteria or viruses. The common bacteria known to cause food poisoning
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