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Cardiac cycle is the contraction and relaxation of the heart to push the blood to the rest of the body. Systole = contraction (so, atrial systole means contraction of the atrium, ventricular systole means co...

First, the DNA Helicase enzyme ‘unzips’ the two stranded DNA by breaking the hydrogen bonds present between the complimentary base pairs on the two opposing strands. Then this leaves two exposed strands, all...

Action potentials are depolarisations above the threshold level traveling along a neurone, communication often evolves the action potential being transmitted from one neurone to another, this is done via ner...

The four phases are - prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. This can be remembered as P-MAT. The first phase, prophase, is where the chromatids condense into chromosomes, making them visible. The seco...

The tertiary structure involves four types of bonds being made between secondary alpha helices or beta pleated sheets. These are disulfide bridges, hydrophilic/hydrophobic bonds, ionic bonds and hydrogen bon...