Conservation
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- Created on: 02-01-13 13:02
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- Wildlife Conservation
- Biomimetics
- Knowledge of how species have adapted to survive, and the application to human engineering
- Humpback whale pectoral fin design in ships for manoeuvrability
- Shark skin grooves in swimsuits, boats and aircraft for less friction
- Bird wing design in aircraft wings
- Knowledge of how species have adapted to survive, and the application to human engineering
- Economic
- Food
- Asthetics
- Medicine
- Physiological Research
- Many species have been used for physiological research to benefit humans
- Armadillo for leprosy vaccines
- Squid for nerve function
- Sea urchin embryos for drug teratology
- Teratology: the study of the causes of birth defects
- New Medicines
- Many plants, mainly tropical, produce biologically active chemicals which can be used to treat human disease
- Mexican wild yam - diosgenin for steroid medicines
- Rosy periwinkle - cancer treatments
- Yew tree - taxol, for breast cancer treatment
- Poppies - painkillers and morphine
- Cinchona tree - malaria protection
- Physiological Research
- Morals
- The belief that other organisms have the right to life, and it is wrong to kill them
- Ethics
- In less economically developed countries many people have no alternative but to kill wild animals as their food source.
- Biomimetics
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