Throughout the past four and half billion years, life has evolved continuously. Evolution has allowed species of organisms to have drastic changes in both their genetic and morphological traits. This has occurred in such a way to reinforce the organism’s survival rate. Using phylogenetics, it is possible to determine information such as what type of changes occurred between the last common ancestor of the organism and any new species that have emerged in recent years. Phylogenetic trees are constructed
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There are many different ideas and concepts of how humans came to the earth. Some believe in the theory of evolution, and others believe in a higher source who put us all on this planet. Scientific or not, everyone believes in something and today I will be talking about one theory that Archaeologists proved to be true. This all began at a site called Laetoli, where these Archaeologists have found footprints that led them to answers to many of their hypothesis. I plan on telling you all about these
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Cultural Creatures A world without animals is a world we would not live in. As they help us in many ways, we should help them back. All over the world, beautiful creatures are being killed by us humans, and it needs to stop sooner rather than later. Imagine you went on a beautiful African safari expecting to see your favorite animal, the elephant. As you go on you start to wonder where all of the towering creatures are, when you spot the body of one laying down on the ground dead with its tusks
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For decades, people have been told about evolution, but few people are told about creation. Several museums say millions and billions of years ago, but only the creation museum and a few others say 6 thousand years ago the world was created (as the bible teaches). People go to state parks and they say millions and billions of years ago the earth was created, that’s not true! The Bible tells us the world is only 6 thousand years old. A lot of people listen to famous Hollywood actors, but few listen
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In his essay “GENETIC INTERVENTIONS AND THE ETHICS OF ENHANCEMENT OF HUMAN BEINGS” by Julian Savulescu, the author supports the belief that genetic enhancement will become a channel to improve the quality of human lives (Savulescu, 879). Savulescu begins by raising the question of whether or not we should use medical technology for more than just curing diseases by suggesting to improve human lives by interceding on a biological level. He states that it is a morally accepted practice to improve
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Evolution has always been a big question; it is said that we all started from one single ancestor but still unknown to it. When watching the film, it opened my eyes to transformation, I always believed animals came out of the water to explore but it says that they started as land mammals to water animals due to their hands/ find. I have never given much thought to how similar whales are compared to people. Whales having similar characteristic made me wonder how is that possible? Something that looks
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it attaches to the DNA and breaks the double helix in a specific place. Then, this cell repairs the damage by using another unbroken piece of DNA as a template for the broken strand. Gene editing tools including ZFNs make use of this type of repair system. Normally, the repair template used is the other chromosome, but gene editing tools can place a new template into the cell and have the cell change the DNA to the new template. This changes the target DNA in the chromosome itself! Unfortunately, there
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The whole point of this movie was to show how everything is connected. It started off by talking about how life on earth started. The earth was so hot that only certain types of bacteria could survive. The bacteria was taking in carbon and releasing oxygen. A specific bacteria started to evolve into trees. It was called cyanobacteria. Others evolved enough to make life. Now, humans have taken over almost all territories on earth. The agricultural revolution was our first great revolution and is still
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One of the main sources that paleontologists use to discover hidden secrets about the past is through studying fossils. Geologists, paleontologists, biologists, and other scientists study fossils in order to uncover facts about the different species and organisms that roamed the Earth up to 3 billion years ago. Using this knowledge, scientists have learned more about the geological processes that continually happen today, as well as climate changes from the past and present, the origination and extinction
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The termites are an interesting group of insects. They are some of the only hemimetabolous insects that can undergo true eusocial behaviors. This ability to form a close-knit community allows them to form a super-organism. This super-organism is built upon actual individual organisms, which are the different castes in a termite mound. Termite social behavior can be a lot like human behavior in many ways, depending on the human culture you're looking at. In most western human cultures, we lack the
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