Many factors contribute to the idea of gradual speciation, but all fall under the same theory of evolution. Webster defines evolution as \"the theory that groups of organisms change drastically and smoothly with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection or chance, so that descendants ...

Biotechnology is a powerful, controversial and critical topic dealing with disease, genetics, and the use of microorganisms or other biological substances to make industrial or manufacturing processes. Biotechnology has spawned many new ideas and discoveries to benefit society. It plays a part in he...

Patrick Donahoe Nats 104 3-9-00 Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Crop management is a vigorous activity that changes as technologies are developed. Now that were in the new millennium, we are finding new and enhanced ways to improve things that effect us in our everyday lives like, industrial poll...

Diversity EssayAmerican biologist R. H. Whittaker in 1959 described a classification system of five primary kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protists, and monera. Kingdom animalia cover all taxonomic kingdom all living or extinct animals, an example of an animal is a human. Humans thrive off of on...

ANIMAL CELLS My cell is the animal cell It really depends on which cell you are talking about - different cells do different things. Such as skin cells. They form a barrier on the outside of the body which protects the organs and tissues inside. It stops them getting damaged by bumps and knocks and ...

Introduction Since the dawn of the last century, man's technological capabilities and knowledge of science have been developing and expanding at a rapid rate and as a result of that, they have been researching, developing, manufacturing, and using "weapons of mass destruction."1 T...

Genetic engineering. Is this a genius procedure or simply a case of impatience and hunger for money? After doing further research on the topic, I\'ve found myself torn between opinions about whether or not genetic engineering is practical. The conclusion that I have personally come to is that aside...

TetanusTetanus is a serious, sometimes fatal, disease caused by theinfection of a puncture wound in the skin by spores containingthe bacterium, Clostridium tetani. These bacterial spores arecommonly found in soil, animal excrement, house dust, operatingrooms, contaminated heroin, and most surprising...

Antibiotics use to be the talk of the medical world just fifty years go, now the talk is about trying to find a better antibiotic than the ones they came up with less than a five decades ago. Antibiotic Resistance has taking the world by storm. The abuse and excessive use of antimicrobials may be dr...

BacteriaThe two most basic types of cells are eukaryotic and prokaryotic. Animal cells fall under the eukaryotic classification while bacteria, which will be the topic discussed, fall into the prokaryotic classification. Bacteria have a wide variety of characteristics, which includes, cell structur...

Using Irradiation to Make Food Safer for Consumers In the world today, there is a limited access to fresh and uncontaminated food. Gunjan Sihna, of Popular Science, reports that "The U. S. Centers of Disease Control estimates 6.5 million confirmed cases and more than 25 million additional u...

The last time you took your five-year-old to the family physician with a serious case of strep throat were they hesitant to prescribe him an antibiotic? It's scary to think that as more and more bacteria develop immunity antibiotics are losing their potency. Bacterial resistance is a real problem ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas is most notably known for his Five Ways of Proving the Existence of God. Aquinas "believed that both faith and reason discover truth, and a conflict between them being impossible since they both originate in God" (Magee, http://www.aquinasonline.com/). Of Aquinas&ap...

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 o...

John's, Johnny's, Joane..... hard to pronounce.... Well 92% of beef producers are unaware of Johne's disease. The estimated $2,000,000-$4,000,000 Johne's disease costs the Georgia Beef Industry each year is hard to forget. Good morning, I am Crystal 8888 from 3333 County. Today I will share with ...

CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAll living things are made of the same basic building blocks, cells. A human is made of 65 trillion cells. Cells are everywhere, on you skin, in your blood, and even on your tongue. In fact, your blood is clear but red blood cells are what make your blood red. Most liv...

TaxonomyTaxonomy is a branch of biology that pertains to the classification of organisms and their natural relationship to one another. There are seven categories: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, and Species. Carlos Linnaeus designed this system. In this paper, I will describe the ...

1. In the book it describes the orgin of life on earth by evolution. The evidence that the book offers for the orgin of life is that a variation exists within the genes of every population. It states that some species are better suited to survive because of the variation. It also states that fol...

CH 9Archaeobacteria-prokaryotic organisms lacking peptidoglycan in their cell walls and differing from eubacteria in many ways.Binomial nomenclature-by Linnaeus where each organism is assigned a genus and specific epithet (2nd name)Cyanobacteria-photosynthetic, prokaryotic, typically unicellular org...

ExtremophilesThe term extremophiles is applied to groups of microorganisms that live and thrive in places where most living creatures could not survive. Extremophiles can be grouped into two categories; Bacteria, simple celled creatures whose cells lack a nucleus, and eukarya, whose cells are more ...

Modern algae are decendents of early photosynthetic eukaryotes which began to appear on the Earth over 1.5 million years ago. Algae are classified into six divisions based on their photosynthetic pigments, reserve food supply, and cell wall composition. In these six divisions of algae, three group...

What is an antibiotic? What is this 'miracle drug' that everyone talks about? There is a lot about antibiotics that we should all be more aware of.The word 'antibiotic' actually means 'anti-life'. The most common definition that we use for an antibiotic is: any substance produced by a microorganism ...

The biggest experiment in human history has begun, with us as the guinea pigs and planets ecological system as the test site. Need more hints about the topic. We find it mixed in our food on the shelves in the supermarket and we find it growing in the test fields. Give up? The topic is genetically e...

Genetic Engineering Accepting the Possibilities: A Research Paper on Genetic EngineeringScience is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to c...

Symbiotic Planet ReviewIn Symbiotic Planet, author Lynn Margulis explains her Serial Endosymbiosis theory, which is a recent theory of how evolution occurred. While the book was rather dull at times the theory itself is very intriguing. Most people assume that humans are the most intelligent and ca...