Polka Dot Plant (Hypoestes Sanguinolenta) also known as "freckle face" is an attractive decorative ornamental plant with velvety green leaves and splashes of color. Its color spectrum consists of red‚ white‚ purple‚ lavender‚ purple scarlet rose. The striking leaves also come in solid colors with dots. Other common names for this plant are the flamingo plant‚ the pink dot plant‚ and the measles plant suggest spotted leaves. This bushy‚ colorful plant is native to Madagascar where it can grow up
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Plants and humans are perhaps the most important organisms‚ however‚ us humans‚ have caused the death of thousands of plants by starting fires and by cutting down trees for things such as paper and furniture. Plants make oxygen which is very important for our survival; we can’t live without it. In the year 2003 alone‚ 774500 acres of land‚ that contained not only threes but animals too‚ were burned in California (Jane Strong‚ 2003). Some of this land was burned due to natural fires but some of it
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Viroids are plant pathogens that consist of a short stretch (a few hundred nucleobases) of highly complementary‚ circular‚ single-stranded RNA without the protein coat that is typical for viruses.[1] The smallest discovered is a 220 nucleobase scRNA (small cytoplasmic RNA) associated with the rice yellow mottle sobemovirus (RYMV).[2] In comparison‚ the genome of the smallest known viruses capable of causing an infection by themselves are around 2kilobases in size. The human pathogen hepatitis D is
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Fukushima Power Plant Nuclear power plants now account for 14% of the world’s electricity supply [1]. These power plants differ only by the fuel used from oil coal or gas power plants. The concept is otherwise the same. Large nuclei become unstable when struck with a neutron‚ his causes it to split apart and also produce neutrons which are fire out. This then causes a chain reaction and other nuclei are split up. This splitting of nuclei is called nuclear fission and it provides heat which heats p water
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was caused by a weak structure of the plant it self and poorly qualified operators of the plant. This melt down was the worst in history. Another example would be the melt down of Three Mile Island in the United States; The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County‚ Pennsylvania‚ United States on March 28‚ 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history and resulted in the release of
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to show the effects that different colors of light have on plant growth. We separated our plants into different boxes and then covered the openings with colored cellophane. We conducted this experiment for approximately two weeks. Out of the colors blue‚ green‚ red‚ and yellow‚ the plant behind the blue cellophane grew the most. Research Problem What effects does different color light have on plant growth? Hypothesis The plants will grow taller under the red and blue light opposed to the
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Director of RL Wolfe’s of production and Engineering. This case study was about the introduction of the concept of self-directed teams into a newly rehabbed plant in Corpus Christi‚ Texas in 2004. The analysis took place after 4 years of initial implementation of the SDT structure. Amasi expected after the implementation of SDT’s the Corpus Christi plant would achieve high productivity. Self –directed teams are small groups of employees responsible for an entire work process or segment‚ expected by some
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DANSHUI PLANT NO.2 Background: Danshui was a contract manufacturer assembling electronic products in southern China. There were many manufacturers like Danshui in China assembling parts for the companies wishing to save labor costs. Apple contracted with Danshui to assemble 2.4 million iPhones in Plant No.2 with the expected high demand of this product in 2010. As a profit center‚ Plant No.2 was credited for each iPhone produced and shipped. The process of assembling was complex and required almost
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The Devils Plant Kudzu is a perennial vine of the legume family. It was first introduced to the United States from Japan in 1876 by the United States government to be used as a fast growing ground cover and as a forage crop. It is also very high in nitrogen and actually replaces nitrogen into the soil. A couple things kudzu is good for is to be used as livestock feed‚ in fertilizer‚ herbal remedies‚ teas‚ honey‚ or even some paper products. Although kudzu seemed like a wonder plant‚ the introduction
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The domestication of plants and animals lead to great change in the development and structuring of communities‚ as the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was slowly replaced by permanent settlements of farmers and villages. We can see that the communities varied greatly dependent on their local ecology‚ the resources available‚ and the time period within which their community was based. The road to agricultural way of life in the MIddle East is characterized by Four distinct stages. It was during the Kebaran
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