impossible for scientists to analyze each and every single one of these microbes. So that is why we would be using a simple approach to looking at diversity in bacterial communities. In this experiment we went out to collect samples from the American River in order to analyze the various diversity in Bacteria species in the community. We focus our experiment by looking at a portion of the gene called the 16S rRNA which is found in all microbial species. Instead of using a shotgun metagenomics approach
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Appendix III EXERCISE ON VALUES THE ALLIGATOR RIVER STORY (ANONYMOUS) As most stories begin…Once upon a time‚ there was a river that was practically overflowing with alligators. As you may have guessed‚ it was called Alligator River. A girl named Abigail lived on the west bank of the river. Her boyfriend‚ Greg‚ live on the opposite bank. Abigail and Greg were very much in love with each other. One slight complication: no boat‚ and an alligator-filled river stood between them. Abigail decided to seek
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water quality is worsening in many branches of the Yangtze River that drain into the reservoir. Additionally‚ the quality of water behind the reservoir is only minimally improving. This can be attributed to the slowing of the natural flow of the river due to the dam and reservoir. The reduced flow inhibits the rivers ability to flush out pollutants naturally (Bradsher‚ 2008). Even before construction began on the 3 Gorges Dam the Yangtze River was already suffering from extreme pollution but the addition
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“On the Rainy River” The short story “On the Rainy River” is an integral chapter in the memoir The Things They Carried written by William Timothy O’Brien. The short story is written through the perspective of O’Brien in present day and as a young man faced with a draft notice for the Vietnam War. In “On the Rainy River‚” O’Brien portrays the importance of bravery of individuals in the society through the use of symbolism‚ powerful tone‚ reflective point of view‚ narrative devices‚ and through the
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out and see our journey in the San Marco River and our surroundings. On this journey‚ my family and I go and have fun over the weekend at the San Marcos River. First‚ we spend a one hour to get there; we get there around 6:00 in the morning. We start to set up everything that we bring from home. When we finish‚ we take a five to ten-minute break before we go the river and have fun‚ and then we eat something fast like potato chips. Then‚ we go to the river and have fun. Suddenly‚ I heard my brother
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Merck and Co. and river blindness MANUEL VELASQUEZ‚ Business Ethics. Concepts and cases 4th edt.‚ Prentice Hall‚ Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey‚ 1998 River blindness is an agonizing disease that affects some 18 million impoverished people living in remote villages along the banks of rivers in tropical regions of Africa and Latin America. The disease is caused by a tiny parasitic worm that is passed from person to person by the bite of the black fly which breeds in river waters. The tiny worms
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Deep River‚ Ōtsu has a belief that God is omnipotent enough to encompass all religions; thus‚ he calls Him as an Onion because an onion symbolizes several layers of mystery. In the conservative sense of the noun “Christian‚” Ōtsu is too radical and open-minded. Of course‚ identifying oneself as a Christian is more about what you do‚ and less what one preaches. In that sense‚ Ōtsu dies as a Christian. He goes to India and helps find the dead and dying in order to carry the bodies to the River Ganges
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novel Regeneration focuses on the soldiers that have been sent to Craiglockhart‚ a mental hospital where casualties suffering from physiological disorders from the first world war have been sent. Two main characters that the book focuses on are Dr Rivers‚ a psychiatrist that helps cure the soldiers so that they can return to war and perform their duties‚ and Seigfreid Sassoon who has been sent to Craiglockhart to be ’cured from shell-shock’. In this novel‚ the reader is able to connect and understand
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Mark Twain once stated‚ “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain conveys both the river and the shore as places of freedom and reality. While the two are on the raft flowing downstream‚ both boys are able to feel a sense of liberty. After days of being on the raft‚ Huck explains that "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery‚ but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (116)
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Final Report Environmental Degradation and Destruction: Water Pollution in China Japanese Economy EA Introduction As one of the largest growing economies in the world‚ China‚ as a developing country‚ is now experiencing similar problems that other developed nations faced in their past developing phase. Environmental pollution‚ deforestation‚ unemployment and bribery issues are common in China‚ and China’s ability to progress at a rapid pace has been affected by these problems
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