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How can high absorption of salt fro the diet leading to high salt concentration in local capillaries lead to build-up of tissue fluid?

High salt lowers the water potential of the tissue fluidLess water enters the capillaries at the venue end through osmosis
Remember - Osmosis is the transport of water from an area of higher concentr...

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Explain the process of DNA replication an state why it is called semi-conservative.

During DNA replication, DNA helicase attaches itself to the double stranded DNA and breaks the hydrogen bonds between the 2 strands. Next, free nucleotides pair with complementary bases on each strand of ...

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Outline the sequence of events following the production of extracellular proteins that leads to their release from the cell. [3]

keywords: outline sequence following production extracellular step 1) protien is folded by rough endoplasmic reticulum and re

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Describe the primary and secondary structure of proteins

Primary structure:
Due to the bonding and the shape and chemical nature of different amino acids, the shape of a whole chain of amino acids (a polypeptide or protein) is

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Outline the process of DNA replication

During DNA replication the double-stranded DNA helix is separated to single strands by the enzyme DNA helicase. This exposes the nucleic acid bases that encode the genetic sequence. Replication is then in...

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