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State the similarities and differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells

Prokaryotic cells (bacteria) are exclusively unicellular whereas eukaryotic cells can display attributes of both multicellular and unicellular of a bigger and more complex structure. Eukaryotes are disti...

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An isosceles triangle ABC has a perimeter of 16cm. AB = x+3, AC = x+4. Calculate the area of ABC.

Find x.2(x+3) + x+4 = 163x + 10 = 16x = 2So: AB = 5cm, BC = 5cm, AC = 6cmThen use '0.5 x base x height' to find area.Base = 6Height use Pythagoras: 5^2 - 3^2 = x^225 - 9 = 16x = 40.5 x 6 x 4 = 12cm^2

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How is a nerve impulse transmitted across a cholinergic synapse?

Action potential reaches pre-synaptic knob.This stimulates voltage gated Ca2+ channels to open and Ca2+ to diffuse in.This causes vesicles containing ACh to bind to the pre-synaptic membrane and release A...

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Integrate the natural logarithm of x (ln x) with respect to x

In order to integrate ln x you have to use integration by parts, even though it appears there is only one term to be integrated. We get around this by instead writing it as (ln x)(1), where we treat the 1...

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