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Mutation can result in changes to a proteins primary, secondary and tertiary structure. Deletion mutations and mutations resulting in a new stop codon can result in the <...

ADH or Anti Diuretic Hormone is a hormone that regulates the amount of water absorbed in the kidney. It acts on the collecting duct of the kidney, which is the last part of the nephron (a single functiona...

Mitosis is the process of cells dividing to form two identical daughter cells. It consists of five stages: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Interphase is the stage during which the...

Phosphorus is a vital building block and is used in the compound ATP, it is also a vital component within nucleotide and protein synthesis with the sugar phosphate backbone found in DNA and RNA being comp...

Glycolysis takes place in the cytoplasm and comprises two stages: phosphorylation and oxidation. In phosphorylation, glucose is phosphorylated using two molecules of ATP to form glucose phosphate and then...