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Explain and define the roles of producers, primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, and decomposers

Every organism has a tropic relationship in a food chain. Producers are at the bottom of the food chain and they are autotrophs, meaning they get their nutrition through sunlight via photosynthesis, for e...

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How are proteins made in the cell?

Protein is transcribed from messenger RNA (mRNA) by ribosomes on the rough endoplasmic reticulum or ribosomes in the cytoplasm. This detects the start codon and moves along the mRNA 'reading' the bases on...

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How do I find out the equation of a line?

First of all, we must remember the formula for the equation of a line.

This is y=mx+c.

It is important to understand what each part of the equation means:

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Explain the formation of a flood plain.

Flood plains form when the discharge of the river channel exceeds it's capacity. As the river transports sediment via traction, suspension, saltation and solution the sediment is held within the river cha...

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Find the first derivative of f(x) = tan(x).

First, use the trigonometric identity tan(x) = sin(x) / cos(x) to rewrite the function. It should now be very apparent that f(x) is now actually a ratio of two functions, and therefore the quotient rule w...

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