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"Hormones are secreted by endocrine glands." Explain the meaning of this statement.

Firstly, lets define each of the important scientific words here. Hormones are chemical messengers in the body which aid in the chemical coordination of different functions, for example, related to homeostas...
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How does vaccination prevent infection?

White blood cells produce antibodies which are produced rapidly upon re-infection and these antibodies kill pathogens.
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What are the difference between mitosis and meiosis

Mitosis is the type of cell division which produces daughter cells which are genetically identical to the parent cells. This type of cell division is needed for growth and repair. In mitosis in human cells t...
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What is the differences and simalarities between diffusion and osmosis?

Diffusion may be simple, whereby solutes travel through the phospholipids in the cell membrane as they have the same polarity as a lipid or are small enough to do so.Or, diffusion is faciliated and this is w...
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What are tropisms?

A tropism is a growth in a plant in response to a stimulus. The stimulus could be a change in the direction of light or a water source. To recap, a stimulus is a change in the environment of an organism that...
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