Ancient times have it that a group of people of heritage called the "Sumerians" has documented information about a planet that's beyond Pluto in our solar system in a different orbit. They have it documented as the 12th planet because they counted Earth's moon as a planet and als...

Evolution, a process of change through time, is what links together the enormous diversity of the living world. A lot of evidence is present that indicates that the earth has had a very long history and that all living things arose in the course of that history from earlier, more simpler forms. In...

How Life Began On Earth About 4.6 billion years ago the Earth was a fiery mass of liquid matter. As the hot mass began to cool, a rock crust formed on the Earth's surface, and the gases escaping from the newly made rocks formed the early atmosphere. The early atmosphere was made up of methane, ammo...

At the beginning of the project, the Human Genome Project was compared to the Manhattan Project or the mission to put men on the moon. It was considered so broad and so complex that the funding could only come from the government. The Human Genome project is now in the hands of private labs. Th...

Gorillas are apes and, since apes are man\'s closest relatives, they hold a very special fascination for us as humans. Animals have existed on earth for around 600 million years followed by mammals some 200 million years ago, and finally the first primates about 70 million years ago. When it comes t...

Good morning class, today I will be speaking to you about the topic on Should cloning be used to revive extinct species?" I say no. Unnecessary , irresponsible and rash are the words that spring to my mind when this question is asked. How can man consciously play god, and unrelently contiun...

Nearly half a century ago, two scientists discovered, "the secret of life." What Watson and Crick found in their Cambridge laboratory might not have been the secret of life, but it has allowed for many changes in most people's everyday life. Their finding is the structure of deoxyri...

HOW TOOLS TRANSFORMED PROTO-HUMANS INTO MODERN HUMANS According to archeological and physical record, tool use has had an enormous effect in the transformation of proto humans into modern humans. What stimulated tool use was the proto humans intrest in new and easier ways to do things. With the int...

HOW TOOLS TRANSFORMED PROTO-HUMANS INTO MODERN HUMANS According to archeological and physical record, tool use has had an enormous effect in the transformation of proto humans into modern humans. What stimulated tool use was the proto humans intrest in new and easier ways to do things....

Cloning In the movie Jurassic Park, we watched as man was able to recreate the existence of dinosaurs using blood and DNA preserved many years ago. This process of taking cells and using it to recreate a lifeform is called cloning. A few year ago man was blest with the discovery of cloning. But with...

A GIRL OR A BOY . . . YOU PICK In the July 23, 2002 issue of the Los Angeles Times Newspaper, there was an article entitled "A Girl or a Boy, You Pick" written by Aaron Zitner. The article discusses the embryo-sorting technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or "PGD" and how embry...

Cloning Technologies and More Science, in the past few years has made great strides in the field of mammal reproduction. They've worked for years to find out exactly what happens during a pregnancy, and also how it works. We've come so far in these stages as to gain the knowledge ne...

Genetic Engineering Anti-technologists and political extremists misinform, and over exaggerate statements that genetic engineering is not part of the natural order of things. The moral question of genetic engineering can be answered by studying human evolution and the idea of survival of the fi...

It seems that all societies are always striving for perfection. From the beginning of time, people have always worked to be the best. Sometimes, wars had to be fought. Other times compromises had to be made. But in the end, it all came down to one concept. Every community, every city, every nat...

We all remember the 1998 season in baseball which was one of the biggest and most watched baseball seasons. This was because there were two contenders competing to break the record of "the most baseball home-runs in a single season." This had many people glued to the television to see if ...

Reading over the original scientific study, we discover that the research team came to a rather important conclusion for the study of the development of biological species. Traditionally, it has been hypothesized that the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (the KT boundary) was the precipitating even that...

Human cloning isn't as scary as it sounds. In late February 1997 a British scientist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Dolly was made by replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder. This was an amazing announcemen...

In today\'s society, we have made great strides towards living longer, healthier, and more productive lives. With current medical technology, we have stopped smallpox, eradicated polio, restored vision to the blind, and transplanted a human heart. Now it seems that we have made these great efforts t...

In today's day and age, absolutely anything can happen, especially in the world of science. Earlier this year, scientists were able to create the first completely cloned healthy cat. This brought to many individuals shock and disbelief. Up until a few weeks ago, the extent of cloning only rea...

Cloning is a process used to obtain an identical organism asexually. The clone it produces does not only look and think like its donor, its DNA is identical. DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. It is the substance that contains the genetic information for most organisms. In other words, it con...

A few years ago, Dr. Ian Wilmot came out with the first living thing to ever be cloned, a sheep named Dolly. People realized that Cloning was not something you found only in a Star Wars movie. From then on out, cloning was all people talked and debated about. Most who like the idea of cloning think...

This paper is directed at the general public, and more specifically toward the nonscientific population. I feel that it is the type of paper that could be distributed in pharmacies and doctors offices in the form of a pamphlet. The scientific information is intended to be understandable for indivi...

From cucumbers and carrots to white rice and wheat, we humans have altered the genes of almost every food we eat. For almost 10,000 years we've been engineering plants by keeping the seeds from the best crops and planting those the next season. Following this practice year after year has resulted ...

Cell theory- all organisms are made of one or more cells and the products of those cells. An organism may be a single cell, such as a bacterium, or many cells organized to function together as in an animal or plant. In many celled organisms, there may be intercellular material made by the cells. All...

A Feminist Encounter of the Eleventy-Billionth Kind... Whoa... In the distant future of a parallel universe to the first star on the right and straight on til' something, there is an alternate Earth, or, as the inhabitants of the planet call it, U.T.E.R.U.S.(P.), the acronym standing for; ...