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... Sometimes the person has limited twisting ability at the elbows. The hands are short, and the feet are short and flat. Another sign is double jointedness, caused by loose ligaments in some joints. Achondroplastic children can flex their finger, wrist, hip, and knee joints to an extreme degree because of this. These signs are usually apparent at birth, and can be diagnosed at that time. Affected men average 51.8 inches in height, while women average 48.6 inches. There is no relationship between the height of the parents and the adult height of their children with . Children with develop slower. It takes them along time to gain proper head control, because of the extremely lar ...
... 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 forelegs and hind legs work in pairs like a running rabbit. When they drink, a giraffe must either straddle or bend its forelegs. The giraffe is sociable and nonterritorial, living in loose, open herds. At a moment a ...
... its first foothold on the secrets of nature's evolutionary process, when an Austrian Monk named Gregor Mendel developed the basics of how genetics work. Using this, scientist studied the characteristics of organisms for the next one hundred years following Mendel's discoveries. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his or her father that were encoded one blue, the other brown. The same child could also receive from its mother two brown genes. The conclusion is that the child would have a three out of four chance of having brown eye ...
... takes us into the city is a commonly know option. Not always have people been able to choose public transportation as a method of getting to and from. Dating as far back as 1889 when the first method of public transportation was developed in Massachusetts. Before this the thought of having a bus or train run to the main areas of a community was absolutely unheard of. But in today’s society there are many people who depend of the train or bus to get to work or to school or wherever it is they are going. When exactly did public transportation change from a luxury to a comfortable part of society? We can not exactly put a date on it but as you look back in time with me we can see how sl ...
... One could also identify the chloroplasts with in the cell. We then put up our dishes for another week. The third week of our fern lab we identified the difference between male and female gametophytes. We did this by taking a culture from our petri dish and placing it under a dissecting microscope. Due to the male and female being both located on the same prothallus it was necessary to obtain the exact location of the antherium and the archegonium from the lab book or the instructor. Once this was done it was fairly easy to tell the difference between the male gametophyte or (antheridium) and female gametophyte (archegonium) on the prothallus. The antheridium was located around the per ...
... people all over the world. Ufologists have come up with a system to divide UFO incidents into three major types of close encounters. First, close encounter of the first kind (CEI) are classified as UFO sightings. Second, close encounters of the second kind (CE2) are sightings and permanent evidence, such as marks in the ground or burns on grass. Third, close encounters of the third kind (CE3) are actual contact with alien beings from a UFO. (Oberg 240) There are many different theories about how UFOs travel and where they come from. "Some scientists believe that they come from the larger planets like Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter or Saturn"(Yenne 103). Most people think that UFOs come f ...
... in colleges and schools, where the disease has been well studied, report that they see most patients in the fall and early spring. Epidemics do not occur, but doctors have reported clustering of cases. Transmission: EBV, the virus that causes most cases of , infects and reproduces in the salivary glands. It also infects white blood cells called B cells. Direct contact with virus-infected saliva, such as through kissing, can transmit the virus and result in . Someone with , however, does not need to be isolated. Household members or college roommates have only a slight risk of being infected unless they come into direct contact with the patient's saliva. A person is infectious several da ...
... information was organized from various websites. It also contains information from a newspaper article about a new monitoring site for acid rain in Irish Cove located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. ACID RAIN The atmosphere, unpolluted, is the means of life on earth. It is a thin layer of gases which surrounds our planet. It is known that without the atmosphere our planet would be inhabitable, but we continue to put numerous amounts of toxic waste into it. The burning of fossils fuels, produces gases that cause acid rain. Acid rain is harmful to forests, lakes, rivers, and any wildlife that is located in these areas. High standards of living, which developed countries are ac ...
... have lived in North America for at least 12,000 years. Archaeologists and historians have divided this time span into prehistoric and historic periods. The prehistoric period extends from the earliest arrival of humans in North America to the coming of the European explorers. The historic period begins with the arrival of these explorers and continues up to the present. As you walk across public land, something on the ground catches your eye. You pick up a piece of pottery or an arrowhead, wondering about the people who made this artifact. Who were they? When did they live? How did they live? If you return the artifact to where you found it, you have left in place a clue that could ...
... or compounds containing the chemical elements carbon and hydrogen(Gasoline). When the gas is burned in the engine of the car, several byproducts result. These exhausts include hydrocarbons and oxides of three elements: Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur(Emissions). Tiny amounts of poisonous trace elements such as lead, cadmium, and nickel also are present. Everything contained in the exhaust affects the environment intensely. Auto engine exhaust contributes about 50% of today's atmospheric pollution, and in highly populated and industrialized cities, air pollution consists of up to 80% car exhaust. Because of all of the gasoline powered cars on the road, the earth's outermost pro ...
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