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Eukaryotes have a plasma membrane, nucleus, nuclear membrane, nucleolus, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, rough endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes.

Prokaryotes do n...

The easiest way to think of the human heart is as 2 separate pumps in one loop. The first pump is the right side of the heart, which receives deoxygenated blood from the systemic circulation (the body). T...

Enzymes are proteins with specific tertiary structures. Part of this structure forms an active site. Only the substrate of an enzyme, in this case Maltose, fits/ binds to the active site. This forms an en...

During DNA replication, the two DNA strands separate and each acts as a template (due to base pairing) for DNA polymerase to use to make the second strand of DNA. As a result, each new DNA molecule has on...

Think of DNA like 2 long shoelaces coiled around each other to form a spiral - or a double helix as it's called. Each of the 2 shoelaces is called a 'strand' and is made up of something called 'polynucleo...