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So respiration is the means by which all cells produce energy, and this is done through aerobic or anaerobic respiration of glucose. Let's concentrate on animal cells first.

Anaerobic res...

A synapse acts as a junction between cells - either between neurons, or between a neuron and a muscle or gland cell.

Although neurons transmit information via electrical signals, synapses...

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, is used to carry or contain the information that DNA contains. DNA is too large to be carried out of the nucleus, so mRNA is used to transport the necessary inf...

1. DNA is double-stranded in the form of a double helix, whereas RNA is much more commonly found in single-stranded form.

2. The pentose (5 carbon) sugar found in DNA is deoxyribose, wher...

Transcription is the process of transcribing the DNA code into another type of code or message - mRNA (messenger RNA). 

An enzyme called RNA polymerase binds to ...