Biology Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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Properties of Neon and Its Uses (459 words, 1 pages)

Neon Neon, meaning new in Greek, was discovered by two British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers. They discovered the element in the atmosphere while they were studying liquid air. It was separated from other inert gases. This was in the year 1898. Ramsay had predicted the existince ... Read More

Traditional Morality Comparable to Physics and Chemistry (3951 words, 7 pages)

INTRODUCTION. Traditional morality is a set of rules and beliefs about appropriate social behaviour, which have evolved to facilitate and improve social life. Most people feel that morality is somehow more than this. They think it's not merely something that's developed in response to human needs, but that it's true ... Read More

A Paper on the Planet Venus (904 words, 2 pages)

Venus is the 2nd closest planet to the Sun, and the closest planet to Earth. Venus can reach visual magnitudes (brightness) of -4.4, making it the brightest object in the night sky, excluding the moon. Venus was once considered Earth's twin, a swampy place with oceans and strange creatures were ... Read More

Imagining Life on Mars (1015 words, 2 pages)

Life on Mars If life ever evolved on any of the other planets, Mars is the likeliest candidate. After Earth, Mars is the planet with the most hospitable climate in the solar system. So hospitable that it may once have inhabited primitive, bacteria-like life. Outflow channels and other geologic features ... Read More

The Role of Chemistry in the formation and test of Margarine (799 words, 1 pages)

In the April 2006 issue of ChemMatters, I found an article entitled "Bread-and-butter issues, the chemistry of margarine" which is of great relevance to what I have just studied in the topic of organic chemistry. The author of this article is Andrew Parsons, who is currently a senior lecturer in ... Read More

The Extraordinary Life of Steven Paul Jobs (1370 words, 3 pages)

Life of Steven Paul Jobs Steve Paul Jobs was born in 1955 in Los Altos, California. Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. The Job's were not happy with the school system of Mountain View so they packed up their bags and headed off to ... Read More

An Essay on the Components of Lasers (761 words, 1 pages)

The laser is a device that a beam of light that is both scientifically and practically of great use because it is coherent light. The beam is produced by a process known as stimulated emission, and the word "laser" is an acronym for the phrase "light amplification by stimulated emission ... Read More

The Amazing Life of Jane Goodall, the Famous Biologist (1312 words, 2 pages)

JANE GOODALL Jane Goodall is a biologist who was born in war-torn London on April 3, 1934. Not long after Jane's arrival, the Goodall family moved to a town along the southern coast of England, called Bournemouth. On her second birthday, Janes father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee ... Read More

An Analysis of Acid-Based Reaction Proposed by Bronsted and Lowry (800 words, 1 pages)

In the simple formalism proposed independently by Bronsted and Lowry in 1923, an acid was defined as a proton donor and a base was defined as a proton acceptor. In the simple acid-base reaction shown below, H3O is termed a Bronsted Acid, and HO- a Bronsted Base. In writing organic ... Read More

The Disadvantages of Cloning (478 words, 1 pages)

Humanity is overwhelmed with countless ethical issues every day. One of the most controversial is the subject of cloning, with the overall question being, "To clone or not to clone?". Many doctors, politicians, religious people and others have been battling with this question, and the only way to decide which ... Read More

Hydroponics the Evolution of Gardening (966 words, 3 pages)

Hydroponics Introduction I became fascinated by hydroponics and the idea that one doesn't have to get their hands dirty to be a great gardener, and if your like us that's a good thing. The idea of hydroponics has been around since the pyramids where build, but in all these years ... Read More

An Analysis of the Human Genome Project by Thomas Lee (1579 words, 2 pages)

?The effort underway is unlike anything ever before attempted, if successful, it could lead to our ultimate control of human disease, aging, and death.? ?Thomas Lee Does the Human Genome Project affect the moral standards of society? Can the information produced by it become a beneficial asset or a moral ... Read More

An Analysis of the Human Cloning in Ethical Perspective (1982 words, 4 pages)

The things I will be covering 1. What is cloning? 2. The meaning of Ethical 3. A brief history leading up to the current day developments. 4. The different types of cloning methods used 5. How cloning is actually achieved 6. Advantages 7. The possible problems that could occur 8. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Nitrous Express Kit (1099 words, 2 pages)

There are many ways to make a car faster but most of the ways cost a lot of money. One of the ways to make you're car faster in an inexpensive way is nitrous oxide. There are many nitrous companies one of the best is Nitrous Express. The Nitrous Express ... Read More

Have You Ever Wondered How Planes Actually Fly? (1228 words, 3 pages)

The History Of Planes Have you ever wondered who was the first person to make a flying machine? It was not the Wright brother. If you want to know just keep reading more about the history of the planes and how it evolved. The Reason Planes Fly Whenever I see ... Read More

An Essay on Unsolved Mysteries about Our Solar System (1141 words, 2 pages)

Ancient times have it that a group of people of heritage called the Sumerians has documented information about a planet thats beyond Pluto in our solar system in a different orbit. They have it documented as the 12th planet because they counted Earths moon as a planet and also counts ... Read More

The Physics behind the Making of Gunpowder (1707 words, 5 pages)

GUNPOWDER Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford University, in England published a book in ... Read More

A Short Biography of Hans Geiger, the Inventor of the Geiger Counter (368 words, 1 pages)

HANS GEIGER Hans Geiger, whose full name was Johannes Wilhelm Geiger, was born in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany, on September 30, 1882. He died in Berlin on September 24, 1945. He was the inventor of the Geiger counter Geiger got his the Ph.D. at the University of Erlanger in 1906. Geiger worked ... Read More

The Perfect Halloween Storm of 1991 (1788 words, 3 pages)

Halloween Storm 1991 The Storms beginning It was Halloween Eve 1991, the weather was crisp and pleasant in western Massachusetts and New England. However, it was not the children that would be playing tricks on the people of this region, it was instead nature. The day before a storm of ... Read More

Tricks and Advice on Indoor Plant Growing (1204 words, 6 pages)

INDOOR GROWING Indoor growing has many advantages, besides the apparent fact that it is much harder to have your crop "found," you can control the ambient conditions just exactly as you want them and get a guaranteed "good" plant. Plants grown indoors will not appear the same as their outdoor ... Read More

A Short Paper on Genetics and Genetic Alternations (242 words, 1 pages)

Genetics Genetics should be used to improve humans. Genetic alterations would be the most important thing to humans. If you genetically alter a retarded person, you could make them normal. It would cost a lot of money to be genetically altered, but the parents would gladly pay any price to ... Read More

A Discussion on Pros and Cons of Genetic Manipulation (1306 words, 2 pages)

Genetic Manipulation Yes or No? Genes, being part of the basic building blocks of man, control all aspects of ones life. They control how tall you are, what color your eyes are, and what diseases might afflict you in the future. Therefore, the manipulation of such genes can be a ... Read More

Galileo’s Work and Methods of Patronage (2092 words, 3 pages)

Evaluation of Sidereus Nucius I feel that the motivation of Galileos pursuits in Astronomy and stargazing was driven by his desire to be financially successful. Galileo was an extremely ambitious and clearly independent individual whose methods of generating scientific data epitomizes a survival of the fittest like struggle between all ... Read More

An Essay on Forensic Entomology (1230 words, 2 pages)

Forensic Entomology A New Type of Detective The use of Forensic Entomology is quickly becoming recognized and accepted as a valid form of forensic identification. Although some problems have been found with the method, many police departments want to add its use to their crime-solving arsenal. Some people cannot understand ... Read More

Maintenance and Calibration Essential for Quality System (530 words, 1 pages)

Explain how maintenance and calibration of equipment fit into a quality system. In the laboratory quality is synonymous with accuracy. For a laboratory accuracy of results is of paramount importance as a failure to achieve accuracy in a set of results could lead to damaging financial loss in a marketing ... Read More

An Analysis of Cystic Fibrosis (540 words, 1 pages)

Causes Cystic fibrosis is a disease that comes from a difference in a person's genes. Any parent with the CF gene can pass it to their children. Although those parents may not actually have CF, they may carry the gene that could be passed on to their baby. When both ... Read More

An Essay Comparing the Evolution Theories of Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck (534 words, 1 pages)

Comparison of the evolution theories of Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck In this essay I am going to compare the theories of Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Charles Darwin was a British Scientist who lived between 1809-1882. He laid down the foundation of modern evolutionary theory with his concept of ... Read More

Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion (1941 words, 3 pages)

Subject Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion What are we? To the biologist we are members of a sub-species called Homo sapiens sapiens, which represents a division of the species known as Homo sapiens. The most interesting aspect about our species is that we are able to and can walk upright on ... Read More

An Essay on the Theory of Evolution (2687 words, 4 pages)

Evolution, a process of change through time, is what links together the enormous diversity of the living world. A lot of evidence is present that indicates that the earth has had a very long history and that all living things arose in the course of that history from earlier, more ... Read More

Cloning the next Step to Mankinds Evolution (488 words, 1 pages)

Genetic Engineering Two years ago Scottish scientists announced that they had successfully cloned a sheep. They named it dolly and it was an exact copy of the original sheep. Is cloning morally right? Is it ethical? Some people think that it is wrong and that it shouldnt be practiced on ... Read More

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