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    Strange Fruit/ Blood on the Leaves Strange Fruit is a famous song sung by Billie Holiday in 1939.The song itself was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol in 1937. This song was to protest racism and especially against the lynching of African Americans. Lynching specially means to put to death‚ especially by hanging‚ by mob action and without legal authority. The Klu Klux Klan were basically known for being against the whole civil rights for blacks and against them having voting rights. They

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    From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit) Several culinary fruits Culinary fruits In botany‚ a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower‚ one or more ovaries‚ and in some cases accessory tissues. Fruits are the means by which these plants disseminate seeds. Many of them that bear edible fruits‚ in particular‚ have propagated with the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed

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    Fruit Fly Lab Report

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    Christopher Kruzel Bios 221 April 4‚ 2012 Drosophila Introduction The fruit fly or Drosophila melanogaster is ideal for classroom experiments. They are inexpensive‚ easy to nap‚ breed‚ as well as observe. It was very important to be able to tell the male and female flies apart from one another. The males are known to be usually smaller in size than the female flies and have bristles on their forelegs while the females lack this appearance. Also the males have a black or dark round end whereas

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    Nutritive Value of Fruit Fruit of all kinds is valuable for the nutrients supplied. Everybody needs Vitamin and Mineral content that fruit contributes to be healthy. Because vitamin C can’t be stored in the body‚ a daily source of vitamin C is needed. Eating oranges‚ grapefruit‚ or mandarins will supply enough vitamin C for the day. The bright yellow and orange colour of any fruit indicates a rich source of vitamin A. Iron is the most important mineral available from fruit. Some of the greatest

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    Improving fruit and vegetable packaging Share  Email 0 Comment(s)  Print Published 2006-08-28 00:00:00 FRUITS and vegetables are an important sub-sector in the agricultural sector because they are valued as protective food. They are very rich source of minerals‚ vitamins providing more energy per unit weight than cereals. Pakistan has a wide range of agro-climatic condition‚ which allows the production of a variety of fruits and vegetables. However‚ there is a wide gap between availability

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    Acidity’s effects on Fruit Browning Aim: To test whether the acidity of the surface area of an apple has an effect on the rate of enzymatic browning over 70 minutes. Hypothesis: the more acidic the surface area the longer it takes for the fruit to oxidise. Variables: Independent: acidity of surface area of the apple Dependent: the progression of melanin (brown pigment) after 70 minutes Controlled/fixed: time of day‚ knife used to cut fruit‚ portion of fruit‚ environment

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    Drosophila: Fruit Fly Lab

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    The history of fruit flies is considered a tradition. Research of these flies initially entered labs 100 years ago. Thomas Hunt Morgan‚ who lived from 1866 to 1945‚ was the founder of drosophila genetics. Thomas preformed his research in Morgan lab at the Columbia University in 1910. Here was when they found a famous mutation‚ know as the white-eyed fly. Quite an accomplishment was this discovery‚ but the end of the 1980’s there were 3‚000+-recorded mutations. Now drosophila is very popular; so popular

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    Tired of consuming familiar fresh fruits just like apples or bananas? How about rambutan? Rambutan is an abundant supply of minerals and vitamins. This hairy strawberry lookalike is actually having its own renown by reason of its useful benefits‚ and here they are : 1 . RAMBUTAN – Great source of vitamin C It is truly constantly proper to ingest packed with vitamin C. It is quite necessary since it is an antioxidant property that assists one’s body’s defense mechanisms to ensure it can battle

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    change. 5. No selection can occur so that certain alleles are not selected for‚ or against. If even one of these conditions are debasedthan micro evolution has occured. In this lab students were instructed to cause micro evolution in a population of fruit flies “Drosophila melanogaster”. This organism was chosen for a number of different

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