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Describe how the hormone glucagon helps a healthy individual to maintain their blood glucose concentration correctly.

When an individual's blood glucose concentration rises above the normal range (approximately 70-100mmol/100cm^3), alpha cells in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas detect this change and release glu...

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Not all mutations result in a change to the amino acid sequence of the encoded polypeptide. Give an explanation.

The first reason is that the genetic code is redundant. This means that even though different codons have different matching t-RNAs and therefore usually different amino acids, some codons are matched wit...

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Answered by Luisa B. Biology tutor
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Frequent treatment with antibiotics can result in resistant strains of bacteria, explain how.

A mutation can occur, causing the formation of an antibiotic resistant gene within a bacteria. This bacteria will then survive the course of antibiotics and reproduce, passing on the gene by vertical gene...

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Answered by Hannah A. Biology tutor
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Explain how smooth muscle in the arterioles can reduce blood flow.

The smooth muscle contracts, causing vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the vessel lumen.

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Answered by Hannah A. Biology tutor
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why does vision using the fovea have high visual acuity, but low sensitivity to light compared with vision using other parts of the retina.

the connections within the retina explain this. there is a different density and distribution of different types of cells in the retina - the fovea, in the centre of the eye, has a high density of cone ce...

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