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» ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN BIOLOGY FROM 2004 – 2008 IN ENUGU NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study was carried out to examine the impact of biology education in higher institution of learning in Enugu State using University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). To achieve this objective, three research questions were formulated to guide the study. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentages and tables to analyze research questions. A structured questionnaire was used as the...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract Education is the process of becoming critically aware of one’s reality in a manner that leads to effective action upon it. The plight of women, in terms of education is further compounded by the negative attitude of parents toward female education. Some parents are usually reluctant to send their girl child for formal education especially to higher levels like their male counterpart...Continue Reading »
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» Abstact The main focus of this study was to determine the antibacterial effect of Neem tree (Azadirachtaindica) leaf extract on Staphylococcus aureus. The Neem tree leaf extract was tested in terms of the different levels of concentration with (a) 25% concentration, (b) 50% concentration, (c) 75% concentration, (d) 100% concentration on Staphylococcus aureus. It specifically compared the significa...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The quality of education is directly related to the quality of instruction in the classrooms. It is a fact that the academic qualifications, knowledge of the subject matter, competence, and skills of teaching and the commitment of the teacher have effective impact on the teaching learning process (National Education Policy 1998 2010). Quality im...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER TWO 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Drosophila melanogaster Drosophila melanogaster belongs to the Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum:Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Diptera, Family: Drosophilidae, Genus: Drosophila, Subgenus: Sophophora, Species: melanogaster. The species is known generally as the common fruit fly or vinegar fly (Meigen, 1830). Ashburner et al. (2005), in their various investigations...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) remains a major challenge for the control of tuberculosis worldwide. Susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates to first line drugs is therefore necessary to ascertain the diagnosis of MDR TB. A total of 437 re treatment patients’ samples were screened for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB), 72 were smear positive giving a prevalenc...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Dermatophytes are fungi that have the capacity to invade keratinised tissues of humans and animals to produce an infection. The study was conducted to determine the epidemiology and molecular characterisation to identify of the dermatophytes associated with almajirai in Makarfi Local Government Area (L. G. A.) of Kaduna State. Samples were collected from the almajirai that had lesions on ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The poultry industry is a highly profitable business in Nigeria (Adebambo et al., 1999) and it is one area of animal production with significant contribution to human food production in egg and meat. Poultry products provide protein of high biological value (Epstein, 1990). Nigeria is endowed with many poultry species which are indigenous to the country and includes: t...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information Jatropha curcas is a species of flowering plant in the Euphorbiaceae family. It is native to the American tropics, especially Mexico and Central America (Janick and Robert, 2008). It is cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, becoming naturalized in some areas. The specific epithet, "curcas", was first used by the Por...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Corynebacterium glutamicum is a rod shaped Gram positive aerobic bacterium, which can be found in soil, sewages, vegetables, and fruits (Eggeling and Bott, 2005). This bacterium is capable of utilizing various sugars as well as organic acids (Blombach and Seibold, 2010). Among others, C. glutamicum has the ability to metabolize glucose, fructose, and suc...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Bacteriological analysis of the water samples such as heterotrophic counts, coliform counts, Faecal Coliform/Faecal Streptococci (FC/FS) ratio were carried out following standard procedures. Gram negative bacteria and Gram positive Staphylococcal species were identified using ID 32E and Microbact 12S kits respectively. Susceptibility of the isolates to ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study In recent years the concentrations of toxic metals in many ecosystems are reaching unprecedented levels. The increasing use of metals in industry and mining activities have led to serious environmental pollution through effluents and emanations (Güven et al., 1999). Under certain environmental conditions, heavy metals may accumulate and...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The intensive production of farmed fish with compound feeds, has been largely increased mainly due to the growth of aquaculture production, and also because it is the most efficient way of production to meet the fish demand (Olsen and Hasan, 2012). Although, capture fishery production has been relatively stable at about 90 million tonnes sin...Continue Reading »
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