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…have over prescribed antibiotics, even for illnesses that are not caused by bacteria. Since there is no accurate diagnostic testing for bacterial infections, physicians prescribe antibiotics when symptoms of common infections are shown in patients. However…

…Thesis Essay Can animals detect natural disasters? Can animals detect minor personal events like coming home from work? That is what I will try to answer today. Some animals have other senses, some of those are unexplained, and some may have…

…in mitochondria, which are separate structures. So did Dolly's mitochondria come from the udder cell or the egg? "I thought that in a cloned animal a mixture of the two mitochondria would persist," says Eric Schon of Columbia University in New York. To test this, he…

…In 1877, Robert koch grew an organism called anthrax. He tested, demonstrated, and produced anthrax by injecting it into animals. Anthrax is an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals or their products…

…Anthrax, in Other Words Death The Anthrax Bacterial Virus is very deadly. If the right precautions aren't taken and any animal or human comes in contact with, it the infected one will suddenly become severely ill and then die within so many days…

…cocaine. Actually, they found a way in animals, and they are hoping to use it on humans. The team showed that the epilepsy drug gamma vinyl-GABA, or GVG, blocked cocaine's effect in the brains of primates, including the process that causes a "high" feeling…

…Is carbon dating accurate? Carbon dating, used since 1948, is currently the main method of testing artifacts for age. My objective through this essay is to disprove the accuracy of the Carbon 14 dating method. William Libby invented carbon…

…engineering plants or animals, scientists are destroying nature and ultimately creating a problem that can’t be reversed. One of the biggest concerns with genetically engineered food is that their resistance to herbicide will spread to weeds. This in turn would…

…into the environment, where they serve as signals or messages to alter behavior in other organisms of the same species. Pheromones are a class of compounds that insects and animals produce to attract members of their own species. These compounds are secreted by the body…

…, and in tightly organized schools in which they live that are made up by sound communication. In testing the communication skills of dolphins, extensive studies have been done on vocal mimicry, in which the animal imitates computer-generated sounds in order to test…