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Ensuring Our Future Through Conservation
<view this essay>.... rainforests of today still contain all of the same vegetation, animal life, and animal species as they did in the past. However, the size of theses majestic rainforests has diminished immensely over a course of about 100 years. Recent studies and estimates conclude that around two percent of the world's rainforests is lost each year. Unless we change this amount of deforestation, there will be little of our rainforests left in 50 years. Our rainforests are an integral part in our world's ecosystem, and therefore need to be conserved as best we can. The rainforests provide safety and life to millions of kinds of life, they may contain cures to many of the .....
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Mistakes People Make With Steroids
<view this essay>.... time. Today everyone seems to be looking for shortcuts to do just about everything. Performance enhancing drugs and supplements are just the thing for someone who is looking toward “bulking up” and increasing strength in a small amount of time. Steroids allow its users to recover more quickly from exercise than a natural athlete, so they can return to the gym sooner for another workout. So that means less work equals more muscle gain, compared to working out normally with no supplement. Who wouldn’t want that? Think about all the pain you wouldn’t have to go through doing all those reps. With a performance enhancing drug, you co .....
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Origanum Vulgare
<view this essay>.... for minor food poisonings and convulsions. Externally, oregano was used on skin irritations to cease the itch. The French included it in soaps and pomades. The Greeks crowned newlyweds with oregano and planted it on graves as well as using the herb medically. Oregano’s German name, wurstkraut, reveals its use of seasoning sausages. The English used oregano for perfumes, washing waters, and used it for dyes to turn wool purple and linen reddish brown.
In good health and quality, oregano should have good color, even sized leaf pieces and a fresh aromatic aroma. The leaves of oregano are very aromatic, slightly pointed and hairy. The flowers are white, and bloom .....
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Differences And Effects Of Natural And Synthetic Fertilizers
<view this essay>.... consist of all the other elements and
compounds required for sufficient growth, such as iron, boron, manganese, copper,
zinc, molybdenum and chlorine. In some cases, these nutrients are found to be
missing in soils, but it is extremely uncommon.
As plants need to retrieve all of their nutrients from the soil, many
methods have been developed in order to find ways to improve or change the soil
to suit the plant's needs. Soil, in science as well as in common gardening,
must undergo detailed inspection, to detect such things as the pH of the soil.
A soil with a pH above 7.0 is called an alkaline soil, and will commonly kill
plants. Mineral content, a .....
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Value Of Environmental Agencies
<view this essay>.... In order to efficiently restore and protect the
damaged land, animals, and people environmental agencies' must be valued.
By destroying the forest, we are creating an open-door policy for
disease. For example, the S.Amerindians have long adopted to endemic disease
and have prevented them, in large part, by their adaptation to conditions of
life over the 20,000 years they have inhabited the tropical forest. With the
lumber companies invading these towns and villages, their western germs are
exposing isolated, once-contained people. Kathlyn Gay, author of Rainforests of
the World, mentions, “Indigenous people in many countries have died because of
co .....
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Cloning And Its Impact
<view this essay>.... demands nuclear transfer to produce better livestock, and cloning could massively improve the agricultural industry as the technique of nuclear transfer improves (Hawley, 1998). Nuclear transfer takes the nucleus of a cell from one individual and places it in the egg or another individual, from which the nucleus has been removed (Wertz, 1998b). The change in phenotype, the observable physical and biochemical characteristics of an organism, of livestock is accomplished by bombarding embryos of livestock with genes that produce “super” livestock traits; however, this technique is not efficient because only five percent of the offspring express these “su .....
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Orangutans
<view this essay>.... from one another creating a "degree
of difference" or two subspecies. There are several different characteristics
between the two subspecies of orangutans and it has recently been suggested that
they may be a separate species. The Borneo male has relatively large cheek
pads, a tremendous laryngeal sac and a square shaped face. The Sumatran male
has small pads and laryngeal sac, a ginger coloured moustache, a pronounced
beard, and a diamond shaped face. Individuals can also be distinguished
chromosomally, biochemically, and by their cranial characteristics.
There is a great deal of individual variety in the orangutan. "Each
orang-utan had a dist .....
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Devastation Of The Rain Forests
<view this essay>.... oxygen and the horrible living
conditions. This terrible scenario would be the result of mankind's
failure to cooperate and live in harmony with the environment, especially
the rainforest of South America. In the end, the destruction of the
rainforests will mean the destruction of mankind.
The devastation of the rainforest may be compared to playing a game
of Russian Roulette. One-forth of existing medicines comes from tropical
plants whose homes are in the rainforests of South America. For every acre
that is lost in the burning season, there is one acre less that we have for
possible life saving medicines. About 70 percent of plants used in anti- .....
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