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Thalassemia is a blood disorder caused by the inefficient production of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin are important protein in red blood cells. This dysfunction causes a decrease production of RBC that deliver Oxygen to all cells and organs in the body (Reference#1). The red blood cells live for up to 120 days; in contrast to Thalassemic RBC…

Our Secret In “Our Secret” by Susan Griffin, the essay uses fragments throughout the essay to symbolize all the topics and people that are involved. The fragments in the essay tie together insides and outsides, human nature, everything affected by past, secrets, cause and effect, and development with the content. These subjects and the fragments…

Corwin Belfield Student Project Spring 2002 Field Biology Dr. Hanks I intend on doing a regular project and an extra credit project. For my first project I will start a recycling process in my home. I don’t want to make it too hard on my family so it will consist of aluminum objects and plastics….

You are in total darkness and in unbearable pressure. You would think that in this freezing environment there is no life, but there is. Eight years ago something was discovered that no one could even imagine. It was a source of life called a hydrothermal vent. A hydrothermal vent is a hot spring found at…

The sea anemones that were collected for the “Clone Specific Segregation in the Sea Anemone Anthopleura elegantissima” experiment were collected by Lisbeth Francis in Pacific Grove, California. The topic of Franciss report is the particularity of the constant anemone-free areas dividing contiguous accumulations of these anemones and the connection of these areas to the dispersion…

Is a non-life threatening hair loss disease. It may not literally kill you, but in other ways deep down it could. I know this from my personal life. I have been an individual that has been suffering from alopecia for the past six years. It’s not easy living in this world with it. I feel…

Over 50% of the dry weight of organisms are made of proteins; this is because things like your nails and hair are made of proteins. Proteins are also components of biological membranes, and they help regulate the passage of molecules through the membranes. This is all very important to the body, but the most important…

Probiotics are “live micro-organisms” that provide health benefits for the host when consumed in adequate amounts.97 Beyond beneficial effects on gastrointestinal diseases, probiotics also exert a beneficial role in liver diseases.98-103 Kumar et al. demonstrated that probiotic fermented milk and chlorophyllin significantly lower tumor incidence, DNA damage and the mRNA level of c-myc, bcl-2, cyclin…

Photosynthesis is a biological process in which sunlight is used to prepare the nutrients for the plant with the help of the green pigment, i.e, chlorophyll. However, when the sun sets there is no way that plant can prepare their meal. It is now become a technology which mimics the photosynthesis the process is called…

ABSTRACT Individuals live in different areas where different type of parasites are present either they are intestinal, blood, nervous system parasites and many other. And for all these parasites any other living organism is the main source for their survival because as it definition defines parasites completely relay on their hosts and at the same…