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Sappho’s fragments in, If Not, Winter, are composed of her reflections on the ardent emotions of love and desire. Sappho continues to ask and search for love, but she becomes consumed with desire. Sappho’s inability to control these emotions causes her to be caught in a battle between love and desire. Throughout the text Sappho uses “eros” to express her lust for an individual; this causes a conflict with in the word eros because it is defined as fluid term in which desire and love are…

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Real or Fake? Would you read a counterfeit bible? “A few of these fragments have been proven real, and a few have been proven fake,” Lawerence Schiffman, professor of Hebrew Judaic Studies. Many people believe when the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered they were forged. The Dead Sea Scrolls include fragments from every book of the Old Testament, but many people say some of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be unreal. Specifically, this ancient collection of text, The Dead…

DNA sequencing (Sanger to NGS) Introduction: The DNA sequencing methods have quickly evaluated for the forty last years and their finding was joined by breakthroughs in the field of Molecular biology (1). The first efficient method to sequencing DNA was found by F.Sanger in 1977 (2). But the huge desire to sequencing genomes required faster methods and many improvements were made. Fluorescence, capillary electrophoresis and microarrays led to a new way for sequencing genes : the Next Generation…

Megalodon Today Have you ever wished that dinosaurs were still alive? One might still exist, the Megalodon. Evidence says that it is alive today. Many sightings, photos, and some videos of what people say, is a monster shark or a Megalodon. It had no real reason to go extinct because it has plenty of food, its environment is still clean and had no hazards that would kill it, and nothing could kill this top of the line predator. Megalodon is a shark that weighs over 20 tons and is up to 60 feet…

enzymes that occur naturally within the bacteria that cut DNA molecules into small fragments. They are called “restricted” enzymes because the enzyme only recognizes a specific DNA sequence. This is the area where it binds and then cuts the double-stranded DNA. An example of how this can be used by research scientists is identifying individual or several strains of a desired species. Gel electrophoresis separates DNA fragments which can be used to distinguish types of bacteria. This can be used…

There are several species on the earth and each species has its unique characteristics. Even within a species, there exists noticeable variation. Variety is the essence of nature. Confining this article to humans, it can be seen that all human beings are similar to a great extent but there are also different from each other to a significant extent. The variation among individuals is due the genetic make up. With an exception of monozygotic twins, no two individuals in the world are identical.…

excavations at the temple pyramids of Uaxactun significantly furthered our understanding of ancient mayan civilization. The scholarly article Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala by Nicholas P. Carter & Jeffrey Dobereiner outlines the process of analyzing small fragments of a codex from an ancient Uaxactun temple made of plaster coated bark dated back to 400-600 AD. Using the process of multispectral imaging, which is to capture an image and…

Last Day Diagnostic Today is my last day with English 101 and I’m pretty happy with how I have done over the course of these 15 weeks. English is certainly not my strongest class that I have taken and I often criticize my work, which makes it very difficult to write anything at all. I always have a lot to say but to get it down on a piece of paper is usually very hard for me. However, for this semester in English 101, I felt that I did a pretty good job at getting all my ideas down and have…

vestiges, like the fragments stand as reminders that we can never go back. This embrace of the fragmentation offers no resolve but rather demonstrates a sort of encumbered acceptance of the world as it is now with ever so brief glimpses of hope, which come and go. Even the structure of the poem itself is as presented as fragmentary, a reflection of the actuality the poet perceived. This new era being ushered in represented all that was bleak and cold and unfeeling. These ‘fragments’ are used as…

Analytical agarose gel electrophoresis This molecular tool is mainly used to separate and identify DNA fragments and in some cases also to purify certain DNA molecules that can be cut out of the gel after the electrophoresis. DNA molecules are negatively charged, and by loading them into an agarose gel and applying a current creating a uniform electrical field, these molecules will move across the gel. How far they travel, depends on their electrophoretic mobility. Size, structure and total…