Mutations A mutation is a type of change that happens in our DNA sequence. Some of the most common mutations are‚ a duplication where a body part is copied one or more times. Some more common mutations are a deletion where the number of DNA bases are changed‚ and another common mutation is an insertion where more DNA bases are added. A nucleotide mutation repeats short DNA sequences a number of times in a row. A substitution is where one or more bases in the DNA sequence is replaced by the same number
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Original Article Peter has been working with the Bigness Oil Company’s local affiliate for several years‚ and he has established a strong‚ trusting relationship with Jesse‚ manager of the local facility. The facility‚ on Peter’s recommendations‚ has followed all of the environmental regulations to the letter‚ and it has a solid reputation with the state regulatory agency. The local facility receives various petrochemical products via pipelines and tank trucks‚ and it blends them for resale to the
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of how much oil had leaked‚ how long until the leak is stopped‚ and what is happening. Everyone knows how bad the incident is‚ BP didn’t tell what people really want to know. The symptoms of BP’s communication problems are reflected by great losses of its reputation‚ trust‚ credibility‚ and share price. Key stakeholder group one‚ the U.S. government. Its concerns are what steps BP is going to take to stem the flow‚ what commitments BP is prepared to make to compensate for the spill. Key stakeholder
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The nuclear accident that happened in Fukushima in 2011 is the worst miserable thing that happened in the past‚ and this disaster have leaked significant amounts of radiation that have affected ecosystems in the region. On March 21‚ 2011‚ TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) investigated the seawater near the southern discharge port of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS‚ revealed that radioactive substances significantly exceeding safety standard values were detected. According to National Geographic‚ Joseph
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1. Henry smiled self-consciously. like a politician before a camera. 3. At this point the Chesapeake is over a hundred feet deep. Deeper than it is anywhere else in its course. 5. Everything stopped in mid-air. All eyes turned to my father. 7. A construction crew has started work on the foundation of the new building. Which will be paid for by state tax revenues. 9. My father always planting a spring vegetable garden. 11. Mainly because it rained everyday. We had a miserable camping trip. 13. Sarah
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Introduction In this report I will be explain and evaluating the impact of the BP oil spill to their stakeholders. D1:1 BP oil spill The BP oil rig explosion was the second worst disaster in the U.S history‚ it resulted in the death of 11 employees and seriously injured 16 others‚ this resulted in one of the largest oil spills in the history of the world‚ this resulted in the Gulf of Mexico waters being covered in oil which killed thousands of animal life in the area and had a huge affect on the
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Kylee Luckett BIO 106 Dr. Harper 4/10/2012 “The World is Blue” Sylvia Earle Review and analysis by: Kylee Luckett “It is our choices...that show what we truly are‚ far more than our abilities.” -Albus Dumbledore They say only a few will ever speak loud enough to be heard over the other seven billion voices on the planet. Today someone is shouting. Screaming off of the pages of “The World is Blue” is Sylvia Earle
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Prestige (sociolinguistics) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Sociolinguistics Key concepts Code-switching Diglossia Language change Language ideology Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Areas of study Accent Dialect Discourse analysis Language varieties Linguistic description Pragmatics Variation People Sociolinguists Related fields Applied linguistics Historical linguistics Linguistic anthropology Sociocultural linguistics Sociology of language Category Category
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run‚ then what’s the point? They would just assume the risk and move on. And why wouldn’t they‚ they are a for-profit business. Its only after an accident happens that they look to safety to save them money. British Petroleum’s Deep Water Horizon oil spill is a prime example. A friend of mine actually worked for BP as a fire protection supervisor leading up to this accident. He told me that on an inspection of that rig a year earlier‚ he recommended 3 million dollars in upgrades. Of course‚ they didn’t
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ a public utility. They are a computer data service company that does data processing for the parent company in order to perform data processing for the telephone company and to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The company was opened to bring the additional revenue in order to offset the increases of telephone rate. Throughout two years of being in operation the subsidiary has been unprofitable
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