Biology Essays

Hereditary Vs Sporadic Cancer: Analysis
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Introduction: Cancer is a common disease, so most families will have some members who have had cancer. Cancer that is not due to inherited gene changes is called “sporadic cancer.” It is believed that...

Effects of Environmental Factors on Catalase and Lipase
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Introduction: Abstract Enzyme is a biological catalyst, which is used to speed up a chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy barriers. The functions of the enzyme are directly related to its structure, a...

Carbohydrate-loading Before Athletic Event
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Introduction: Cheney Firman Should an ultra-marathon runner ‘carb-load’ before an event? Introduction Carbohydrate-loading or carbo-loading is a diet that consists of carbohydrates in a high consumption to i...

Deep Digital Flexor Tendon Injury in Horses: Causes
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Introduction: The study of the cause of injury to the deep digital flexor tendon and suspensory ligament Ellen Knight The aim of my investigation is to discover what makes horses more susceptible to certain inju...

Enzyme Kinetics Laboratory Report
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Introduction: Introduction Enzymes are catalysts that speed up the rate of biochemical reactions that take place within the cells of organisms, hence they are called biological catalysts (Berg et al., 2012b; H Bul...

Determination of Oil and Grease in Water
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION  The term grease is used to describe semisolid lubricants. Although the word grease is also used to describe rendered fat of animals, in the context of lubrication, grease typically appl...

Osmoregulation in Different Environments
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Introduction: MUSOWE EDSON .A Write an essay on the topic “patterns of Osmoregulation in aquatic and terrestrial environments”. Introduction Osmoregulation refers to the process by which living organisms mai...

Purification of Crude Glycerol From Biodiesel
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Introduction: Crude glycerol is the by product produced throughout the biodiesel production process. However glycerol produced at this stage is crude glycerol which is about 80% pure and contains other contaminants...

Stroke Risk With Thalassemia
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Introduction: This paper reviews the contributions of stroke and its correlation with the increased occurrences among persons positive for thalassemia. It also examines the relationship between the person’s t...

MRI Scan for Pulmonary Embolism: A Meta-Analysis
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Introduction: Title:Diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging for pulmonary embolism: a meta-analysis Highlights: This study was performed to analyze the diagnostic performance of MRI for PE. High sens...

Measuring Concentrations of Vitamin C | Experiment
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Introduction: Vitamin C also known as ascorbic acid is synthesized by plant tissues, as well as mammals except guinea pig and primates (including man). Experiment by Lind in 1753 were the first to show the powers o...

Talinum Triangulare (jac.) Phytochemical Composition
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Introduction: Title: Study of phytochemical composition of leaves, stems and roots in Talinum triangulare (jac.) willd. 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of study The Talinum triangulare have common name as ‘Ginse...

Physiological Role of Phytohormones
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Introduction: Plant growth and development is under the control of mutual interactions among plant hormones. The five classical categories of plant hormones include auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, abscisic acid ...

Introduction to Bones in the Body
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Introduction: TAQ1 Bone is made up of specialised cells consisting of protein fibres, calcium, water and minerals. Bones structure is a living material, containing living tissue, blood vessels and nerves. This ena...

Decolorizing Agar Cubes with NaOH | Experiment
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Introduction: Hamsika Iyer Research question: How will changing the surface area to volume ratio affect the time taken to completely decolorize the agar cubes with NaOH, thereby affecting the rate of diffusion? ...

Introduction to the Nervous System in Humans
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Introduction: Gemma Allen Word count: 308 TAQ: 2 The sensory neuron evokes the sensation of pain, touch, hearing vison and taste. It receives its fundamental stimuli from the sensory organs such as the...

Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) in Plant Breeding
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Introduction: Principle of Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) and Their Application in Plant Breeding Since life began on earth about 3 billion years ago, the biodiversity of the plants on our planet have gone through ...

Dengue Fever: Causes and Effects
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Introduction: Two years ago, my friend died due to dengue fever. At that time no one was familiar with that disease. In starting, his temperature; got out of control. He had intense pain in his body. He had a high ...

Regional Fruits in India
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Introduction: Nature has bestowed us with a wide variety of plant resources and their products. Fruits and vegetables are very important food commodities not only in India but all over the world. The fruit and veg...

Acrylamide Uses and Production
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Introduction: LITERATURE REVIEW Acrylamide Acrylamide with chemical formula C3H5NO is an organic compound. Synonyms for acrylamide are acrylamide monomer, acrylic amide, propenamide, 2- propenamide, acrilamida (DOT...

Isolation and Characterization of Proteins
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Introduction: Proteins can be isolated from their native sources and purified by several methods. Egg white is known to be a rich source of dietary protein and after being subjected to salting out method its ovoglo...

Organic Derivatives of Water
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Introduction: The distinction of various organic derivatives or water may be based on their characteristic solubility behaviour and reactions. During this experiment the 8 organic compounds used were Ethanol, 2-But...

Glucose Homeostasis and Diabetes | Report
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Introduction: Research and produce a short report on glucose homeostasis, and the cause and treatment of diabetes mellitus Homeostasis stems from a Greek work that means to “stand equally”. The human bo...

Chromatophores in Crustaceans and Fish
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Introduction: To identify the type, shape and abundance of chromatophores present in Crustacea subjected to different colour backgrounds To identify the shape, type and abundance of chrmatophores on the scales of ...

DNA And RNA Structure and Functions
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Introduction: Introduction DNA molecule is a hereditary material which is transmitted from generation to generation. It is the largest molecule in the living cell comprising of several millions of nucleotide chain....