Bioluminescence

Producers Marine snow- Marine snow is the “rain of food” that slowly falls from the top or middle layers of the ocean zones to the ocean floor. It can also be called detritus. The marine snow is the nutrient that feeds at the bottom of the food pyramid. It’s mostly made up of dead and decomposing animals, dejection, silt and other organic wastes that had been washed into the sea from land. The marine snow got it’s name because it resembles snow with the white fluffy components. As the dead…

There once was two twin sisters, Sparkaless and Glimmer. The Sea God, Poseidon, loved both of them very much. He was looking for someone to marry. He wanted to marry one of the twins, for they were the most beautiful women he had ever laid his eyes on. Poseidon had to figure out a way to ask one of them to marry him but he wasn’t quite sure. He went to go , find Glimmer one day because he had realized what to say. “Glimmer, you are the most beautiful girl in the land.”, he said. “Will you do…

Gene Therapy: The concept of gene therapy emerged in the 1970s. The basic premise of gene therapy is using DNA enclosed in a vector as a therapeutic treatment for diseases. In the decades after it was conceptualized, many clinical trials of gene therapy were developed but stalled in phase I or phase II. During the 90s, only 1% of gene therapy trials made it to phase III and none of them went past phase III. The excitement for gene therapy was reduced when a participant of a clinical trial died…

progression of the leukaemia, measured as the proportion of human leukaemic cells in the peripheral blood. We will do this either as a typical efficacy study, or as a single mouse trial. We may also measure the progression of the leukaemia using bioluminescence in concert with the proportion of human leukaemic cells in the blood. At the experimental endpoints mice will be euthanased and engraftment…

(1999) used a transgenic plant that was created by adding genes that code for luciferase to the gene they wanted to study, in this case APX2. Luciferase is used in bioluminescence because it gives off light which allows the quantification of APX2 by the light it gives off in relative light units (RLU). To make sure that adding the luciferase gene to APX2 did not affect the concentrations, they compared Northern blotting…

Background: Fishermen use many different types of baits and lures to attract fish of different shapes and sizes. One of these types that certain fishermen use are lighting devices that attract fish. Some fish may be attracted to illuminated lures because they live in poor visibility conditions and low light. It is also important to light the bait so the fish could see it. The brighter the light the better, but since electronic light devices are expensive and unreliable, glow sticks prove to be…

This is known as bioluminescence. A concoction response is delivered in unique light-creating cells. This light is then utilized as a part of an assortment of ways however to draw in different animals. Shine worms, fireflies, some fish and mushrooms are samples of living things…

Discoveries can be self-driven initiatives, or thrust upon us through unwitting circumstances, compelling us to examine core beliefs about ourselves and ultimately renewing our perceptions of the world around us (epistemological). Ang Lee’s film Life of Pi (2012) is not merely a triumphant masterpiece of cinematic diversity but a fantastical trajectory of the human soul from a position of spiritual and emotional disorientation (theological) and into a habitat of inner clarity and gratification,…

In the story of the Life of Pi, Piscine Patel is explaining to a secular author who was convinced that this man could make him believe in God. Thus, Piscine (Pi) tells an adventure from long ago. Pi explains that he was a young religious man born in India from zookeepers and is suddenly that he will move to Canada, as his father has job opportunities there, perhaps even better than in India. However, caos falls onto the boat to Canada and Pi is stranded on a raft with a zebra, hyena, orangutan…

Summary: The persuasive piece that I have chosen to use for my rhetorical analysis is a transcript from a TED talk by Paul Root Wolpe titled, “It’s time to Question Bio-engineering”. Wolpe is an ethicist who studies the implications of the new sciences, is the head at the Center for Genetics at Emory University, and is the chief bioethicist for NASA. He begins his talk by presenting the audience with examples of selective breeding in animals and mentions many hybrid animals such as “beefalo”,…