Biological hazard

Nature versus Nurture has been one of the major controversies in all of time. Whether inherited genes or environmental influences can affect one’s personality, behavior, development intelligence, and ability. While nature is mainly characterized by physical attributes inherited from generation to generation, nurture is mainly in control of a person’s character and manner. Either Adam, the monster, could have been born with his savage ways or he could have acquired these ways from society. Nature…

backgrounds to study and understand systems that can be used to counteract chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. It was incredible to see and work on various projects that allowed for counter-terrorism. One of the biggest projects I worked on was our "Spray Knockdown System" it is a massive, almost 20-foot-tall, decontamination structure. It was a system that could easily counteract the effects of a biological weapon on large objects by rapidly releasing a specialized…

Abstracts: This paper is to explain what a biological weapon is and how it affects environment, humans, and the economy. Along with explaining how the disease is spread from person to person, promoting illness. With a little bit of history on biological weapons, and my views on biological weapons. A biological weapon is also known as a germ weapon. This is when bacteria, viruses, fungi, or toxins can be used as a weapon against, animals, plants of humans. The use of infectious agents were used…

Synthesis Essay Genes are the blueprint of nature. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the biological language used to create genes, and those genes make up our characteristics like blond hair and brown eyes. Genes are special codes that is found in all forms of life, including cancer cells and other diseases. A recently new practice of patenting genes has become a controversial topic raising ethical, economical, and other issues. Authors and critics Michael Crichton of the New York Times, and…

scientific studies. These projects included; Rat Extermination (1921), War Gases as Insecticides (1922), Apparatus for Toxicological Experiments (1922), Extermination of Locusts (1923), Ex-termination of Field Rats (1923), co-operative project with the Biological Survey (1923), Marine Piling Investigation (1923), and Boll Weevil Investigations (1920-27). Funding for these projects was provided by Congress or some agency of the government since the Chemical Warfare Service could not provide…

There are many different types of mass destruction that have and can kill individuals. The four chemical agents include nerve, blood, choking, and blistering agents. The first type of well-known chemical agent is nerve agents. Nerve agents affects individual’s nervous system within the body and that is how it gets its name. Nerve agents were heavy used during the second World War (“Nerve Agents,”2017). According to “Nerve Agents” (2017), nerve agents are within the group of organo-phosphorus…

Career Consideration of Biological Engineer and Speech Pathologist Steve Jobs once said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Finding a lifelong career that is interesting, intellectually challenging, emotionally fulfilling, and well suited for a person is often a difficult decision for one to make. Choosing a career might take time, research, and experience, but eventually a person will find a career that suits them best. While a career of a biological engineer requires…

What is smallpox exactly? Smallpox is actually the nickname of the virus, the scientific name is Variola which may appear as V. major or V. minor. Variola virus is relatively stable in the natural environment. If aerosolized, it will retain its infectivity for at least several hours if not exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light. Since the virus is two hundred and sixty by one hundred fifty nanometers and contains a molecule of double stranded DNA putatively coding for some two hundred…

Sadly, terrorism continued to occur almost 60 years later in 2001. Not only did 9/11 occur, but there was a chemical war on America's hands as well. The anthrax attacks occurred shortly after 9/11 in September, eighteen victims of the attacks were identified between October 3 and November 20. This was caused by dried spores of B. anthracis that were sent through letters by the public mail. Five people are known to have died from anthrax and The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic…

and small protozoa which are captured by them through phagocytosis, devouring a particle by “wrapping pseudopodia around it and packaging it within a food vacuole” (Campbell and Reece 2011). They also serve as the models for the study of basic biological phenomena (Görtz and Adoutte 1988). As an aerobic cell, the paramecium consists of “structures and organelles of aerobic non-photosynthetic eukaryotic cells”, including a cell membrane, a cytoplasm, an endocytic system of coated pits, and…