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When an individual's blood glucose concentration rises above the normal range (approximately 70-100mmol/100cm^3), alpha cells in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas detect this change and release glu...

United States President Ronald Reagan renewed the Cold War in the early 1980's by regularly using strong anti-communist rhetoric, labelling the Soviet Union an 'Evil Empire' and significantly increasing m...

The theme of sight and seeing in ‘King Lear’ is very prevalent. Both Lear and Gloucester demonstrate an inability to see their children for who they really are, which plays a great part in their demise. T...

a). Find stationary point: Stationary point is the point at which the gradient equals zero. So first we must find the gradient and the set it to zero and solve: dy/dx= 2x-54x^(-1/2); now we set this to ze...

The first reason is that the genetic code is redundant. This means that even though different codons have different matching t-RNAs and therefore usually different amino acids, some codons are matched wit...