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Gram Negative Unknown Lab Report #20 BIOL 3444-008 Giang Nguyen TA: Malini Kotak 11/05/2014 Abstract The experiment is conducted in order to identify a randomly given unknown gram-negative microorganism. By comparative analysis of biochemical tests that were performed throughout the semester to find out its characteristics and determine the identification of bacterium out of four potential unknown was given. To figure out the characteristics, T-streak was performed to isolate…

Imagine eating fast food for 30 consecutive days, you’ve already developed an higher chance of being diagnosed with diabetes, obesity, and other terrible diseases. With increased Advertisements and people eating more fast food, people are becoming obese at an ever-increasing rate. Over passing generations, the United States has embarrassingly became the most obese country in the world. Some may say that it is the parents fault for letting their kids regularly eat fast food, or at the least,…

Fast Foods and Sugary Drinks: the Main Causes Fatal Diseases Food can be classified as unprocessed and processed. On the one hand, unprocessed food are food that are free of any chemicals or food that we consume within a short period of time, we do not store them long. On the other hand, processed foods can either be prepared and served very quickly, like pizza, or usually are sold to customers in a packaged form, such as fried chicken, potato cheeps, chocolates, sodas, and so on. Some…

How do you define success? Is it illustrated as having daily customer traffic on average of sixty-two million, becoming the 90th-largest economy in the world making twenty-four billion in revenue, and being the largest distributor of toys in the world? McDonald’s has built a chain that, in fact, has accomplished each one of those. However, is success solely driven by achievement and power? What about success can become toxic? As McDonald’s continues to grow over numerous years, its road to…

Bill Nye said, “Climate change is happening, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, who is most known for being the face of the educational program, Bill Nye the Science Guy. He has become one of the most popular figures in the science community. In his quote, Nye is talking about climate change, which is a change in global or regional climate patterns such as a change in temperature of a region. Climate change is one of…

Protection from Cats: Cats are a threat to birds as they kill them for food. These include loose pets, feral or strays cats. Pet owners and savvy backyard birders only need to take simple steps so as to protect their birds from cats. You don’t have to give up your pets. There are several methods which can be used for controlling the birds’ habitat and the behaviour of the cats. The number of injured and killed birds in your yard will be minimized. How to control Cat Behaviour It is hard for…

Industrial agriculture is known as the dominant system in the United States that produces most of the food. Industrial agriculture features enormous animal production facilities and single-crop farms. The system is meant to produce a sustainable and massive amount of food. Within the system is the production of: meat, dairy, fish, vegetables, and fruits. The production of these items would be considered healthy if they were not altered with additives, GMO’s, hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics…

Fuel is the lifeline for a car. It gives the car power to move and keep moving while it 's still there. And once it runs low, it is refilled so that the car once again has the energy to move. This is similar to the relationship between our bodies and food. We eat food as a source of energy to power us through the day. When we feel low on energy and are lacking that power, we eat to refuel our bodies. But what if we eat the wrong thing? Just as a truck won 't run on regular gasoline and a car won…

According to the online Salem Press Encyclopedia, roughly 10 billion animals are slaughtered each year. These animals are killed cruelly by the billions in places know as factory farms solely for the purpose of consuming them. These places have become a highly controversial topic because of the methods they use when it concerns the caretaking of the animals and because of the effects their products have on certain aspects of society. The number of factory farms should be reduced because the…

Another downside of the Industrialized Farming Animal Production is that they have created an escalating range of detrimental environmental effects on local and regional water, air and soil resources (Carlin). “More than half, 54%, of all confined farm animals by weight are concentrated in just 5% of the country’s industrial animal production facilities” (HSUS 2008). The majority of the environmental harm caused by these factory farms results from the high volume of waste that must be stored…