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Exocrine glands release their product to the external environment, while endocrine glands release their product directly into bodily fluids. The pancreas does both: it releases digestive enzymes into the ...

The influx of chloride ions into the lumen of the small bowel causes the water potential to decrease (become more negative). This causes an increased water potential difference between the lumen and the c...

Competitive inhibitors have a molecular shape similar to the substrate therefore compete with the substrate for the active site on the enzyme. If the concentration of substrate increases, the effect of th...

Glucose is absorbed into the bloodstream from the small intestine. In the bloodstream, glucose stimulates insulin release by pancreatic beta cells.Insulin binds to the insulin rece...

RNA polymerase is the enzyme used to bind the DNA section of interest and recruit the free bases needed to form a new mRNA strand. DNA is transcribed on to an mRNA strand because it is too large to ...