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Exotic and Invasive Plants
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A 10 page discussion of the attributes of certain plants which give them an advantage over other plants. This paper notes the deleterious impacts on biodiversity which are associated with the arrival of exotics. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Paper Title: Exotic and Invasive Plants
Extinction and Genetic Diversity
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This 5 page paper considers the question of whether extinction is a necessary part of the survival of the species. The question of whether extinction of certain species will inherently reduce genetic diversity has been at the center of recent debates. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Extinction and Genetic Diversity
Factors Affecting Stomatal Opening
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This 14 page paper looks at the different factors that influence stomatal opening and how these factors are seen as a biochemical level. The paper outlines the environmental factors that create or inhibit the stomatal opening and then examines the role of guard cells and the way they may open and close the aperture and the way that the actions of the guard cells may be adjusted. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
Filename: TEstomat.rtf
Paper Title: Factors Affecting Stomatal Opening
Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion
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A 10 page research paper/essay that discusses current scientific research into the genetic basis for spiritual belief. The research of Dean H. Hamer is summarized and its implications are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khhamer.rtf
Paper Title: Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion
Feeding response in crosses between geographical races of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans: A Critique of the Article by Stevan J. Arnold
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A 5 page review of this article exploring the geographic variance of food preference. Arnold’s article represents one of just a few studies which have explored geographic variation from a behavioral standpoint. Arnold chose to investigate the slug-eating behavior which typifies garter snake populations in mollusk-rich environments, asserting that his study “represents the most thorough documentation of geographic variation in behavior in the vertebrate literature”. Arnold crosses individuals from inland and coastal populations of garter snakes to test the food preference of the first generation offspring. He concludes that there is no perfect intermediacy in regard to the feeding preferences tested. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: Feeding response in crosses between geographical races of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans: A Critique of the Article by Stevan J. Arnold
Fertilizing Woody Ornamentals
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This 5 page paper discusses fall
fertilization programs for trees, shrubs and vines defined as woody
ornamentals. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KTwdshrb.wps
Paper Title: Fertilizing Woody Ornamentals
Firefly study
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A 3 page research paper that looks into the topic of firefly flashing and its purposes. The writer focuses on the species Photinus Pyralis, the most common firefly in the Eastern US, but also discusses general behavior for the species, hypothesizing that the female flash response increases with the male flash duration. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khfifly.rtf
Paper Title: Firefly study
Fish Evolution: Agnathans (jawless fish) to Gnathostomes (jawed fish)
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A 5 page discussion of the evolutionary advancements which propelled fish from their primitive jawless forms to the more advanced jawed forms. Distinguishes between the lamphreys and hagfish and identifies the hagfish as the most primitive vertebrate known to have ever lived. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Fish Evolution: Agnathans (jawless fish) to Gnathostomes (jawed fish)
Food Colorings
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A 5 page paper discussing the use, origins and controversy of food color additives. The visual appeal of attractive food is too well established to believe that the FDA will make any real effort to remove food coloring agents from its list of approved additives. The product class can be expected to continue to be important, particularly in prepared foods. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSfoodColor.rtf
Paper Title: Food Colorings
Frog Muscles
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In this 6 page essay, the author examines several factors inhibited and/or facilitating a frog's ability to jump using certain key muscles. Beginning with an introductory overview of amphibian/frog muscle structure, various idiosyncratic elements in the jump are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Frog Muscles
Functions of Serotonin
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This 5 page paper reviews two articles that examine the role of serotonin, one looks at the implications of depressed serotonin levels and depression, the other looks at impulsive traits related to the polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEserotonin.rtf
Paper Title: Functions of Serotonin
Fungi and SBS
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A paper which looks at the Kingdom of Fungi, with particular reference to mycotoxins and their impact on human beings in the context of Sick Building Syndrome. Bibliography lists 4 sources
Filename: JLfungi.rtf
Paper Title: Fungi and SBS
Gender Roles
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A 17 page paper which examines various aspects of gender roles. Some
of the topics discussed in the paper are how women are still the nurturers and
homemakers despite their working roles, how mothers and fathers differ in child rearing
practices, and how children are taught gender roles through toys. Bibliography lists 14
sources.
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Paper Title: Gender Roles
Gene Therapy
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This 12 page paper provides an overview of gene therapy, its history, and its potential. Controversial aspects of this research are explored.
Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: SA631gen.rtf
Paper Title: Gene Therapy
Genetic Analysis Of A Short-Petjolule Type Soybean
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5 pages in length. In this particular scientific analysis, the researchers sought to either prove or disprove the incidence of short-petjolule type soybean plants relative to that of a recessive gene that exists within the hereditary composition. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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Paper Title: Genetic Analysis Of A Short-Petjolule Type Soybean
Genetic Engineering: A Necessity For Feeding the Masses
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A 5 page discussion of the need for genetic engineering in order to improve our agricultural crops. Emphasizes that an ever-increasing population coupled with a shrinking agricultural land base is a recipe for disaster if alternative methodologies such as genetic engineering are not utilized. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPgenEng.rtf
Paper Title: Genetic Engineering: A Necessity For Feeding the Masses
Genetic Engineering; Boon or Bane
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This 5 page paper looks at the facts surrounding the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering and genetically modified crops. The issues of pest and virus control are examined and the emphasis is on the positive aspects of this new science. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Genetic Engineering; Boon or Bane
Genetically Engineered Foods: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
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A 7 page paper discussing this topic from social, geographic and anthropological perspectives. Many are fearful of using genetically modified foods, but there is no real evidence assessing long term effects either good or bad. However, loss of the natural form is the functional equivalent of extinction, and we can never know when new insights or new technological advances will reveal benefits of natural life forms crucial to human survival. If the natural form disappears before those capabilities come to be, then we can miss out on benefits that can be integral to our ultimate survival. This is the point at which interdisciplinary considerations converge. Each has a different perspective, but each ultimately is concerned with loss of the natural form. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSgenEngFood.rtf
Paper Title: Genetically Engineered Foods: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Genetically Engineered Foods: Process, Controversy and Environmental Concerns
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This is a 9 page paper discussing genetic engineering in food. Genetic engineering (GE) or biotechnology in food involves the process of inserting genetic material into plant or animal breeds in the hopes to develop certain positive characteristics within that breed; characteristics which may have previously taken generations to propagate in the breed. In addition to accelerating the breeding of certain characteristics in plants and animals, GE also involves the introduction of new genetic material within breeds in the hopes for developing new characteristics in breeds. Genetic engineering in food mainly involves the processes of disease and pest resistance in addition to increasing yield. While GE in food may appear to be a positive step toward increasing food yield and decreasing loss of breeds to disease which perhaps could be extended to decreasing world hunger and increasing farmers’ productivity, the manufacturing of genetically engineered food has come under a great deal of controversy. One of the major areas of concern is the “release” of new crops into the environment which have not been tested and little is known of the long term effects of any of the GE crops. Another area of concern is that larger corporations retain the patents on the GE processes which does not allow for the introduction of these processes on a global basis. GE foods have become very expensive and their manufacturing is restricted to a relatively few large corporations and countries in which profit seems to have become the major incentive for the production of GE foods. Lastly, many of the same companies which produce GE pesticide resistant crops are the same companies which also produce pesticides bringing into question the motivation and type of development of GE foods.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TJgenfd1.rtf
Paper Title: Genetically Engineered Foods: Process, Controversy and Environmental Concerns
Genetically Modified Food
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A 6 page discussion of this technology. This paper defines this technology, lists some of its applications, and discusses the controversy surrounding it. Bibliography lists 5 sources
Filename: PPgeneFood.rtf
Paper Title: Genetically Modified Food
Genetically Modified Plants: A Molecular Genetic Milestone
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the molecular genetic milestone, the milestone of the genetic engineering and genetically modified plants. This paper integrates a view of the transformation of cellular research and genetic splicing related to genetically modified plants, and the implications of this kind of change. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Genetically Modified Plants: A Molecular Genetic Milestone
Germination; The Effects of Light and Temperature;
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This 5 page paper considers the process of germination, how it occurs and the environmental conditions needed for its' success. The writer then goes on to consider the impact of light and temperature on germination rates and speeds. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Germination; The Effects of Light and Temperature;
Germs on Human Hands
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This 3 page paper looks at the problem with germs on human hands. How germs are transmitted is explored. This paper focuses on statistics and examines various forms of transmission as well as locale. Specific information is expressed regarding health care professionals and the use of gloves.
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Filename: SA538grm.rtf
Paper Title: Germs on Human Hands
Global Spatial Patterns of Mammal and Bird Diversity
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of biodiversity and pays special attention to endemic species diversity. Why certain birds and mammals are found in particular parts of the world is discussed. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: SA246bio.rtf
Paper Title: Global Spatial Patterns of Mammal and Bird Diversity
Global Warming: A Discussion of the Natural Processes Encapsulated by the Milankovitch Theory and the More Deleterious Manmade Influences
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A 10 page discussion of global warming as it is influenced by natural processes determined by the earth's rotation around the sun, natural processes encapsulated by the theories of Serbian astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch. The author of this paper asserts that the actions of those natural processes have been added to by pollution and activities such as deforestation. The result is an escalated scenario of global warming, a scenario with potentially disastrous results. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PPglblW2.rtf
Paper Title: Global Warming: A Discussion of the Natural Processes Encapsulated by the Milankovitch Theory and the More Deleterious Manmade Influences
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