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    of the animals used in the testing and experiments are blind‚ severely burned or poisoned. Animals don’t need to suffer testing. Animal testing is not accurate. First of all animals react to medicine differently than humans do. For example‚ thalidomide causes birth defects in humans‚ but not in rats‚ mice‚ and hamsters. 50% of drugs that have been approved by animal testing have to be removed because of harmful side effects in the U.S. There is actually no evidence stating that animal testing

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    Animal Testing is a cruel experiment when animals are used as test subjects on products and drugs. This causes harm to the animals‚ and is not always reliable. Animas should not be tested on for products Animal testing is unreliable. Some may say animals are appropriate test subjects because they are similar to humans. Professor Paul Furlong states that "it’s very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we’re trying to achieve in the human.". So testing on animals wont

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    Yes‚ there are times when animal testing has lead to discoveries‚ such as insulin. However‚ there are times that the discovery of medical interventions that were in fact tested on animals lead to many defects and disabilities in human fetuses. Thalidomide was tested in various species of animals and was accepted to be provided to mothers with morning sickness to relieve them of the nausea (Bowd‚ 206). But‚ it had the opposite affect instead resulting in various deformities within the unborn and born

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    Importance of stereoisomers in a biological system Isomers are compounds that have the same molecular formula but different structural formulas. Stereoisomers are isomers that have the same sequence of bonded atoms‚ but they differ in their three dimensional orientation in space. [pic] shown above is an example of the two types of Stereoisomers; Enantiomers‚ which are stereioisomers which are non-superimposible mirror images‚ much the same as one’s left and right hands are the same

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    Development • TERATOGENS: any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period. Depends on the: – Dose – Genetic Susceptibility – Time of Exposure to Teratogens • Key Teratogens – Prescription and NonPrescription Drugs • Thalidomide (sedative) • Accutane – Psychoactive Drugs (Caffeine‚ Alcohol‚ Nicotine‚ Cocaine‚ Marijuana‚ Heroin) • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Hazards… • INCOMPATIBLE BLOOD TYPES – Rh Incompatibility – Mental retardation‚ miscarriages‚ infant death

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    Prompt: Should animal experimentation be allowed to test drugs? Animal testing is the use of animals for scientific and medical research purposes. Animal experimentation is very prevalent nowadays and it became a common and an accepted means of testing by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Animal testing‚ however‚ dates back to many centuries even before Christ. It had started in Greece as indicated by the writings and the records of Greek physicians of the third and fourth centuries BC .Aristotle

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    and have two reasons for this: uncertainty and expense. The first reason why we think that animal testing should be banned is uncertainty. Drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe. For instance‚ in the 1950s‚ sleeping pill called thalidomide caused 10‚000 babies to be born with severe deformities even though it was tested on animals prior to its commercial release. This is still known as one of the most tragic medicine accidents‚ reminding us of unreliability of animal testing. Moreover

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    famous inflection called brucella. If researchers do not protect themselves well‚ they will get disease and spread it to other people. Moreover‚ the results obtained from animal testing might not suitable for human beings (Larry‚ 2004). For example‚ Thalidomide was a drug that came out of the German market in sixties of the twentieth century. Despite this apparent ’safety testing’‚ tens of thousands of children who’s mothers had used this drug were born with severe deformities. The final reason

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    Discontinue Animal Testing Each year‚ over 100 million animals are left dead or physically and psychologically distressed. This is due to cosmetic‚ drug‚ medication‚ or even curiosity animal testing. Similar tests have been going on since almost 500 BC. Joseph Phoenix said‚ “It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal”. Animal Testing is heartless and unkind‚ because scientists can run tests without animals‚ animal testing doesn’t help find human results‚ medication works differently

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    Animal testing is used for many products worldwide. Also animal testing is used for a wide range of things‚ such as items in houses and medicines. Many places test on animals‚ such as private facilities‚ universities‚ and government laboratories. A big debate in today’s society is whether or not scientist should use animals for testing. Most of the animals die during or after the testing. Typing animal testing on images on the Internet it is most likely that gruesome images of rabbits‚ mice

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