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Enzymes are proteins that catalyse the conversion of substrates into products. Similar to other catalysts, enzymes are chemically unchanged during the reaction and they do not change the position of an...

Alleles are different forms of a gene. For exanple if the gene is eye colour, the alleles would be the different colours (green, blue, brown) For every gene that you have, you get two alleles, one from...

Cancer: what is it?

A cancer happens when cells begin to divide out of control.

Benign tumours are growths of abnormal cells which are contained in one area, usually within ...

Modes of Inheritance:

- Autosomal dominant inheritance; In this mode of inheritance you only need the abnormal gene (e.g. a dominant allele) from ...

There are two parts of the nervous system:

Central Nervous system (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous system (PNS).

- The CNS is ...