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biodiversity |
variety of life in an ecosystem |
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genetic biodiversity |
variations among organisms of the same species ; parents to offspring |
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Species diversity |
Variety of species within a particular region; influenced by environmental conditions in the region |
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species |
Normal measure of biodiversity; basic units of biological classification; grouped together in families |
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Ecological biodiversity |
Network of different species in an ecosystem |
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food, medicine, energy & more |
Humans can source from Nature biological resources such as ____ |
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herbal medicine |
Using plants to treat illnesses |
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cypress & myrrh |
Used to treat coughs, colds and inflammation since ancient times |
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california sage |
Used by Indian tribes to aid in childbirth and protects the immune system from respiratory ailments |
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Camel thorn |
contains melezitise & sucrose; Has laxative and anti-diarrhea properties; smoked by konkani for asthma |
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scottish lovage |
treats hysterical and uterine disorders |
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salicylic acid |
anti-inflammatory in aspirin; derived from the bark of a willow tree |
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morphine |
painkiller; made from opium poppy |
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digitoxin |
manages congestive heart failures from foxglove |
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pilocarpine |
treatment of dry mouth |
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quinine |
bark of cinchona succirubra pav was approved to treat malaria |
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food |
basic need for human survival |
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agriculture & cultivation |
evolved from picking desirable crops & breeding animals to maintain stable supply of food |
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agrobiodiversity |
careful selection & development by farmers, fishers & herders |
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energy |
humans rely on ______ to do activities for survival |
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heat energy |
used for cold environment, cooking, & communication |
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coal |
1000 bc used in china for heating & cooking |
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water energy / hydro power |
irrigation |
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oil wells |
developed by china and used bamboo pipelines |
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persians |
they started to use wind powered grain mills and water pumps |
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wind energy |
used to navigate through bodies of water |
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biomass |
was a primary source of energy and replaced with coal |
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coke |
a fuel w high carbon content & few impurities |
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natural gas |
source of light |
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electric generator |
based on faraday’s electronagnetism |
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commercial oul |
led to distillation of kerosene from petroleum |
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augustine mouchot |
first solar powerd system for industrial machinery |
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aqueducts |
maintain stable water supplies to communities far from water |
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dam |
maintain water supply to communities |
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forests |
provide natural filtration and storage for freshwater |
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NOx & O3 |
gases, in moderate amounts, are healthy |
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cartagena protocol |
safe transport of living modified organisms from biotech that may have effects on biodiversity |
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montreal protocol kyoto protocol |
worldwide protocols on biodiversity |
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convention on biological diversity |
protect pacific biodiversity from consequences of LMO |
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GMO |
artificial manipulation & alteration of a species genes using genetic engineering |
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combined/ crossbred |
these processes produce other kinds of species that do not occur naturally in the environment |
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genetically modified seeds |
most controversial issues in science |
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james watson francis crick |
discovered the dna |
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herbert boyer stanley cohen |
first modified an organism by combining genes of two ecoli |
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exxon oil |
used a microorganism that can consume oil |
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humulin |
a genetically engineered ecoli bacteria that produced INSULIN |
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bST bovine somatotropin |
increase milk production in cows |
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flavr savr tomato |
tomate w/ longer shelf life |
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baccillus thuringiensis |
insecticide not harmful to humans; papaya resistant to ring spot virus |
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european union |
labeling all gmo food products |
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golden rice |
developed in the PHL to address vitamin a deficiency |
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cloning |
unacceptable bc it violates the belief of a higher being |
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agroecology |
presents novel approaches on farming systems that address effects of GMO and health |
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johannes gutenberg |
german goldsmith that invented the printing press |
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gendicide |
First commercial gene therapy product that was approved to treat certain cancers |
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nanotechnology |
It deals with the manipulation and study of matter at the nanoscale |
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first dimension |
Involves tangible objects which include materials devices and systems |
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Second dimension |
Deals with passive and static objects |
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Nano facture |
Collection of instruments and procedures |
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Third dimension |
Direct nanotechnology which refers to materials structure that nanoscale components |
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nanobots |
molecular scale workers can employ molecular processes within cells That deliver drugs to a specific sites or even carry out surgery |
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Nanoparticles |
Used to prepare heat resistant and self cleaning surfaces |
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bionanotechnology |
Support cleaner production methods and provide alternative and renewable energy source to enhance the sustainability of factories |
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graphene |
One of the most advanced materials for structural improvement |
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printing press |
device that applies pressure to an inked surface lying on a print medium |
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climate change |
Range of global phenomenon cost by burning fossil fuels the ad heat trapping gases to the earths atmosphere |
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global warming |
First two earths upward trend of temperature and is defined as the general warming affect caused by greenhouse gases trap in the atmosphere |
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melting of ice caps |
causes dilution of salt in the ocean and the disruption of natural ocean currents |
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albedo |
Ratio of the light reflected by any part of the earths atmosphere |
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acid deposition |
Causes surface water acidification and affects soil chemistry |
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thermal inversion |
An unstable air mass and air constantly flow between warm and cool areas |
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kyoto protocol |
International agreement that extends the UN convention, and binds emission reduction targets |
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montreal protocol |
Protect the stratospheric ozone layer by facing out the production and consumption of O-Zone depleting substances |
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enigma |
enciphering machine that german armed forces uses to send messages |
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alan turing |
broke the enigma code |
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bombe |
electro mechanical machine that enabled british to decipher encrypted messages |
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turing machine |
can solve any problem from simple instructions encoded on paper type |
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Electronic brains |
The generation that witnessed a done off the computer age |
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Homebrew computer club |
Really computer hobbyist group that gathered regularly to trade parts of computer hardware |
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gene therapy |
method of inserting genes or nucleic acid into cells as a drug to treat genetic diseases |
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theodore friedman, richard roblin |
People with genetic disorders can be treated by replacing defective DNA with good DNA |
