Australian culture is broad and varied like Australia’s landscape. It is a multicultural country and this is reflected in the food, lifestyle, daily practices and experience. Australia's has an important heritage from its original landowners the aboriginal people which continuously plays an important role in the country's landscape. Approximately 70 percent of Australia is semi arid or desert. It is a country that has been inhabited for 50,000 years, but it is considered a young country. Its…
INTRODUCTION Two significantly important highly pathogenic infection diseases namely Legionellosis and Influenza remains even today a threat to global health. They can cause severe community-acquired pneumonia with respiratory failure but they can also generate hospital-acquired infections.1 Moreover Legionella infection could attribute to influenza infection. The cause of influenza was definitively resolved back in 1930s with the isolation of swine influenza; a virus which when administered…
FAR 346/2 APPLIED PHARMACOGNOSY HERBS: TONGKAT ALI HITAM (Polyalthia bullata) NAME : NOOR HAMIZA BINTI ABDULLAH MATRIC NO : 119103 GROUP : A DATE OF VISIT : 5TH MARCH 2016 LECTURER : PROF DR MOHD ZAINI BIN ASNAWI : ASSOC. PROF SAAD BIN OTHMAN : DR YAM MUN FEI 1.0 Nomenclature and distribution According to Chee and M, (2013) the scientific name or botanical name of Tongkat Ali Hitam is Polyalthia bullata or also known as Polyalthia bullata King. The local names of…
In many cases bees have been labeled a nuisance. To some people, especially people who are allergic to bees, these flying insects are no help; yet, in most cases they are essential to the survival of flowering plants or angiosperms. They complete the reproduction cycle of these plants and without them some plants would not have a successful pollination. Besides beekeepers, and other jobs where work relates to bees, these important creatures go unnoticed. Including bees “insect pollinators merit…
The genus chlamydia is made of three species called C. psittaci, C. pneumoniae, and C. trachomatis. Today we will be focusing on C. trachomatis. It stains gram negative which means it has a thin cell wall and it is bacillus or rod shaped. C. trachomatis is also an obligate intracellular organism which means it cannot exist without a host cell. This leads us into our next segment on how C. trachomatis affects us as human beings. To many of us we know C. trachomatis as chlamydia, which is…
The Four Forces of Evolution If we were to think back thousands of years ago to how things were or how things looked, they would be drastically different than how they appear now. Primates, insects, plants, resources, and lifestyles are all very different than they used to be. Over time they have been steadily changing and adapting to their surroundings. This process of changing is called evolution, discovered by Charles Darwin (Haviland, Prins, Walrath, McBride 2015 Pgs.32-34). With such a…
or intracellular (inhabiting cells in the host’s body). Intracellular parasites such as bacteria or viruses often rely on a third organism, known as the carrier or vector to transmit them to the host. Malaria, which is caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium transmitted to humans by the bite…
For some people, it 's something soothing herbs to temporarily take account of reality. Smell or even a variety of undeniable effectiveness, you have about 65 million people and smoked. I 'm talking about illegal cannabis sativa strain of cannabis known as marijuana. This plan offers a number of benefits outweigh the side effects much more. This must be shown to be an addictive or deadly still. It is physical, psychological, spiritual, but, most importantly, medical benefits, should be legalized…
constant body temperature. As the name states, members of the order Carnivora are carnivores-meaning that they primarily eat meat. Sometimes cats are seen chewing on grass, however, it is not food for them. All cats belong to the family Felidae,. The genus Felis consists of all smaller cats. Also, this word is delivered from the Latin word called…
general and particular. In the literature, the opinion was based on the fact that the forensic identification process essentially consists of two main phases. A. In the first phase, known under several names, but with the same content, the group (genus or category) to which the object of identification is located or delimited.. B. In the second phase, the process of identification, by individualization or the determination of the concrete object, in a causal relation to the investigated deed, is…