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How do I get an A* in my English Literature A-Level exam?

Depending on what examination board (AQA, CIE, OCR) you do, there will be different requirements for you. However, as a general rule it is important that you try and include these things if you are looking t...
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How does skeletal muscle contract?

Skeletal muscle (one of the three types of muscle in our body) contracts by excitation-contraction coupling, or the sliding-filament theory. It all starts when an action potential fires along a motor neurone...
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How does an invading pathogen cause disease?

There are three main ways that an invading pathogen can result in disease: Damage or destroy host cells This is host specific and ligands on the pathogen must fit host receptor proteins on the host cell. Thi...
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What is Mass Spectrometry?

Mass spectrometry is a technique we use to analyse and determine the structure of compound . Generally, it works by injecting your compound into an ionisation chamber , where it breaks up into smaller fragme...
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Show that the integral of tan(x) is ln|sec(x)| + C where C is a constant.

First, recall that tan(x) can be rewritten in terms of sine and cosine. tan(x) = sin(x)/cos(x) The rephrasing of our question suggests that we should try the substitution rule of integration. We should subst...
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