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Glycogen and amylose are used for energy storage. Glycogen is found in animals. Amylose is found in plants. Describe how the structure of glycogen allows it to perform its function and explain the advantage to animals of using glycogen as an energy

First of all I'd realise that the questions is asking you to make a comparison between glycogen and amylose and their suitability, so would advise the candidate to make two separate bullet point lists for pl...
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Describe the Benedict's test for reducing sugars and how this can be modified to test for non-reducing sugars

Take 1-2cm 3 of the sample in a test tubeAdd a few drops of Benedict's reagent to the test tube Heat the test tube in a water bath Leave for 5 minutes Observe the colour of the precipitate formed no precipit...
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Describe how the structure of the renal corpuscle facilitates ultrafiltration.

In the human body, ultrafiltration is the non-specific filtration of blood at a molecular level under high pressure. Renal corpuscles are the starting point of nephrons (the functional units of the kidney), ...
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Describe the structure of DNA

DNA is a nucleic acid. Nucleic acids are made up of 3 base units: a 5 carbon sugar (for DNA this is deoxyribose), a phosphate and a nitrogenous base. The phosphate group is covalently bonded to the 5th carbo...
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How is mitosis different from meiosis?

Mitosis is the replication and division of a cell to produce 2 Identical daughter cells. It happens in all somatic cells all over the body. Meiosis is specific to germ cells (ovaries and testis) and the divi...
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