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How does water enter and move up the plant?

It moves up through a process known as transpiration . This is when water leaves the through the stomata , creating a negative hydrostatic pressure which pulls the water up through the xylem . The properties...
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How is DNA structured?

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Two polynucleotide (which means nucleotide polymer) strands are twisted together and form what looks like a ladder - the DNA double helix . These two strands run antipar...
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Explain how ATP is generated from reduced NAD and reduced FAD via the electron transport chain?

Reduced NAD is oxidised at the first carrier of the electron transport chain and reduced FAD oxidised at the second. The free electrons move into the system of carriers within the membrane while the protons ...
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If you're measuring an environment using a quadrat or another sampling instrument - why can't you just do it where you see the most biodiversity?

Taking a sample from an area of space where you can clearly see there to be more species richness or abundance is not taking a representative sample, and it won't tell you what is really going on in that par...
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Outline the structure of a protein

Primary structure : Amino acids (AAs), the building blocks for all proteins, are linked together by peptide bonds . The primary sequence tells you the AAs in the protein but not the 3D shape. Secondary struc...
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