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How does insulin contribute to the regulation of blood glucose control?

When high levels of glucose are detected in the blood, for example after a big meal, insulin is released from beta cells in the Islet of Langerhans. These are clusters of cells present in the pancreas. Insul...
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How do we know whether our results indicate whether or not there is a relationship between our variables?

We can test for 'significance' in order to determine whether it's likely that the results that we see are due to random chance or due to a relationship between them. This involves using a statistical test (t...
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Describe how oxygen in the air reaches capillaries surrounding alveoli in the lungs?

The air that is breathed in passes down the trachea, the bronchi and bronchioles before reaching the alveoli. Oxygen is able to diffuse across the walls of the alveoli and the pulmonary capillaries into the ...
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Answered by Jennifer W. • Biology tutor
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What is the function of ATP and explain how is it suitable for its function

ATP is a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, used to provide energy for various reactions within the cell and hence sometimes called 'universal currency' of the cell. ATP molecule is made of adenine, rib...
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Why are more cells produced as a result of Meiosis (compared with mitosis) but they contain fewer chromosomes?

The reason for this is due to the process of Meiosis involving an additional cell division step.Mitosis involves 1 cell, which replicates it's DNA resulting in there being 2 'full sets' of chromosomes contai...
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