... experiment to get an idea how to do the main and proper experiment and what would happen in the experiment. In the preliminary experiment we didn’t use the safeguards so it wasn’t fair experiment. We did this because it gave us the idea what problems we might face when we did the main experiment and gave us the idea how to do it. The pondweed should create photosynthesis by the following equation: - 6CO2 + 6H2O 6C6H12O6+ 6O2 Photosynthesis occurs when plants take in Carbon Dioxide from the surrounding air in its leaves and water from the nearby soil in its roots. The leaves then take light energy from the Sun, which is absorbed in the chlorophyll ...
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... This is accomplished by the acting of 2 sets of enzymes - DNA helicase enzymes and DNA polymerase enzymes. The DNA helicase enzymes separate the 2 nucleotide strands. The site where the helicase is working and where replication is taking place is known as the DNA fork. The polymerase enzyme helps the nitrogenous base in a given nucleotide to pick up and attach to a complementary base at the 3' end of the DNA template. The 5'-3' strand of template is duplicated in short segments called Okazaki fragments. Ligase is the enzyme that joins the fragments together. The end product of this is an exact copy of the original DNA. DNA must also be stable, but able to ...
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... broken down into harmless chemical forms. The Army is using composting to clean up munitions processing wastes at several of its ammunition plants, including ones in Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Oregon. At the Oregon site, composting is projected to save 2.6 million dollars compared with incinerating the contaminated soils. In addition to saving money, composting will also avoid the need for burning fossil fuels and will produce an end product usable for backfilling, landscaping, or erosion control. Introduction Whether people know it or not explosives, such as tnt, are a very important part of their lives. Since World War I, munitions have been manufacture ...
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... policies on air pollution has the politically undesirable effect of having extensive economic consequences on all sectors of the economy. Therefore, those policies which lead to the development of an ecosociety must be aimed at having the greatest environmental impact while creating minimal economic distortions. For the purpose of this essay, pollution shall be identified as follows "...the deliberate or accidental introduction to the environment of contaminants, in the form of either wastes or products " (Bryner, 10). This essay will deal with the problem of air pollution. Air pollutants come from heavy industry, fumes from automobiles, jet planes a ...
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... calve stands 6 feet tall and is able to stand after birth. They are highly attuned to danger thanks to their height and good sense of smell and eyesight. They can be fast and can reach speeds of up to 35 mph. Females spend over 12 hours a day looking, while males are less. Night mostly spent lying down ruminating, especially hours after dark and before dawn. A Giraffe has 2 ways of getting around which is walking and galloping. The long legs and short trunk decree an ambling walk, with the entire weight supported alternatively on the left and right legs, like camels. The long neck moves in a synchrony to maintain balance. It can gallop up to 37 mph. The ...
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... in Physics at Clark University. He conducted research on improving solid- propellant rockets. He is known best for firing the world's first successful liquid-propellant rocket on March 16, 1926. This was a simple pressure-fed rocket that burned gasoline and liquid oxygen. It traveled only 56m (184 ft) but proved to the world that the principle was valid. Gossard Died August 10, 1945. Gossard did not work alone, he was also in partnership with a Russian theorist named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Tsiolkovsky was born on September 7, 1857. As a child Tsiolkovsky educated himself and rose to become a High School teacher of mathematics in the small town of Kaluga ...
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... made either of clear plastic sheets, or of glass. The sun's rays go through the glass, and heat up the air inside the building, and they have a hard time getting out. These rays get trapped inside the building, and continually heat the air inside, and even through the night the rays stay in and heat the air. The greenhouse is also called a "HOT HOUSE" because it gets so hot. The greenhouse effect is caused by gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen escaping into the atmosphere. These gases get trapped in the ozone layer and do not let the suns rays escape very easily. This causes the earth to warm up. This warming can cause droughts, an ...
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... lining. Also in the stomach lining, are epithelial cells and the gastric glands. The gastric glands secrete gastric juices. Hydrochloric acid is released which deactivates the salivary amylase, in turn stopping the chemical breakdown of starch into maltose. Pepsinogen, which is an inactive enzyme, will change to pepsin, an active enzyme, when mixed with hydrochloric acid. Pepsin breaks down proteins, forming chains of amino acids called polypeptides. Chyme, a mixture of churned food, mucus, and digestive enzymes, is formed and will pass through the pyloric sphincter into the small intestine. The small intestine is made up of three parts called the duodenum, ...
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... used noteworthy facts throughout the essay to prove is point about how severe acid rain truly is. The facts that he used added substance to the essay by validating his point of view. In the same way, the author used effective illustrations and examples to prove his point. These examples and illustrations simplified the readers understanding as to how severe acid rain is and how we can try to prevent it. For instance, one great illustration adopted in the essay reports, “Lumsden Lake, on the north shore of Ontario’s Georgian Bay, twinkles like a sapphire in a setting verdant forest and sparkling quartz. Blue, incredibly clear, and seemingly pure, just twenty ...
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... types is the hydroelectric power plant. The main reason most countries use thermal versus the hydroelectric is because their countries don't have enough concentrated water to create enough energy to generate electricity. (World Book vol. 14, 586) plants generate only about eleven percent of the world's electricity. There are around 316 plants in the world that create 213,000 megawatts of electricity. (INFOPEDIA) Radioactive, or nuclear, waste is the by-product of nuclear fission. Fission occurs when atoms' nucleus' split and cause a nuclear reaction. (General Information) When a free neutron splits a nucleus, energy is released along with free neutrons, fissi ...
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