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Explain how the left ventricle of the heart creates higher blood pressure

The left ventricle has a thicker muscular wall and therefore produces stronger contractions.
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What is the importance of maintaining a constant body temperature in mammals?

It's very important to maintain the optimum body temperature in mammals, in particular in relation to enzymes and enzyme controlled processes. There will be the optimum temperature for enzymes where they wor...
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Describe the steps in protein synthesis

Firstly, you have tRNA which has a complementary amino acid sequence (anticodon) to the mRNA chain (codon), the latter is derived from dsDNA. tRNA brings specific amino acids to the mRNA in sites of protein ...
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What is the role of the kidneys and how does it function to do its job?

The main role of the kidney is to filter the blood, to remove toxins like urea and then via various methods, parts of the kidney are able to reabsorb many of these filtered substances back for example, gluco...
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What are the main differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?

I would say the main difference here is that eukaryotic cells (e.g. animal cells) have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, whereas prokaryotic cells (bacteria and archaea) have no nucleus and no membran...
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