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How does DNA replication take place?

DNA replication takes place in a semi-conservative manner, where each of the DNA strands serves as a template for the formation of a new strand. This ensures genetic continuity between generations, as geneti...
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What's the difference between a eukaryotic cell and a prokaryotic cell?

Eukaryotes have a plasma membrane, nucleus, nuclear membrane, nucleolus, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, rough endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes. Prokaryotes do not have a ...
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How does the heart pump blood around the body?

The easiest way to think of the human heart is as 2 separate pumps in one loop. The first pump is the right side of the heart, which receives deoxygenated blood from the systemic circulation (the body). This...
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Why does Maltase only catalyse Maltose?

Enzymes are proteins with specific tertiary structures. Part of this structure forms an active site. Only the substrate of an enzyme, in this case Maltose, fits/ binds to the active site. This forms an enzym...
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What is semi-conservative replication?

During DNA replication, the two DNA strands separate and each acts as a template (due to base pairing) for DNA polymerase to use to make the second strand of DNA. As a result, each new DNA molecule has one o...
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