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Glucose is a monosaccharide, meaning that it is composed of single units. This is suitable for transport through the blood stream. Glycogen, however is a polysaccharide meaning that is composed of at leas...

DNA is made up of a double helix with a sequence of nitrogenous bases attached; Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine. These bases are used to code for messenger RNA, a molecule which allows for the repl...

There are several factors contributing to bacterial growth, of which these can be very specific to different types of bacteria, but in general it is as follows.Nutrients is the mos...

Amino acids are the building bricks of life. Redundency occured with in their coding however. A single Amino acid may be coded for by more than one codon (a sequence of three nucleic acids) and therfore m...

The 2 types are: Competitive and Non-competitive.
Competitive inhibitors work by mimicking the shape of the substrate, they are specific to the shape of the active site of the enzyme and will take th...