Science & Technology Essays and Term Papers

one is vegetative reproduction. With this type all the plants that have the same parent have the same genetic make-up. This also lets plants pass adaptations on that they have abtained over the years. Plants with good genetic make-up usually spread…

chemical defence against herbivory ABSTRACT Thlaspi caerulescens is one of several plant species known to accumulate heavy metals in excess of 2% of their above ground plant biomass. The reasons for hyperaccumulation are unknown, but several studies…

made up of many layers, but the crust and the upper mantle make up the lithosphere. The lithosphere is divided into individual sections called plates. The rest of the mantle makes up the asthenosphere. Convection in asthenosphere causes the…

customers were ticketed for disorderly conduct late Wednesday night by police as they waited to buy PlayStation 2 at Wal-Mart when it went on sale at midnight. “If you’re a gamer, you have to have one,” said 30-year-old Gabrielle Aldort of New…

is the farthest planet from the Sun (usually) and by far the smallest. Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar systems moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton). Orbit: 5,913,520,000 km (39.5 AU) from the…

we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and infamous substances on the face on the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with the ban on manufacturing…

and infamous substances on the face of the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with the ban on manufacturing nuclear weapons. But with the continuing problem…

and products into the environment. It is a major problem in Canada and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but damages us also. It has caused lots of problems from lung cancer to the hole in the earth’s atmosphere.…

is a body of water that stretches for 315 miles from the Adirondack Mountains to the Battery in Manhattan, reaching its deepest point of 216 feet in the Highlands near Constitution Island and West Point and reaches its widest point of 3 miles across…

Field Study conducted by grade twelve students attending Northside Christian College. Data was collected and recorded from four different designated sites on the North Pine River. Data referring to such things as temperature, turbidity, pH and dissolved…