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Enzymes are proteins; as such they have a primary, secondary and tertiary structure. Each type of structure helps to hold the enzyme together so that it's substrate - the molecule it specifically binds to - ...

The all- or-nothing-law is related to neurons and is the idea that a neuron can only have a full response (fire an action potential) or no response to a stimulus due to its threshold.Once the resting potenti...

There are four structures of a protein: the primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary is the sequence of amino acids in the protein. The secondary structure is the way the protein is either folded into a plea...

When the body is exposed to a bacterial toxin for the first time, it is recognised as foreign and an immune response will be mounted. In response to the toxin, B lymphocytes will be produced which make antit...

Because the single base mutation would change the primary structure of the enzyme which in turn would change the secondary structure of the enzyme due to the differences in hydrogen bonds formed. As a result...