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What is homeostasis?

Homeostasis is defined as the maintenance of a constant internal environment in the body. An example of this would be the blood glucose level: After a meal, a person's blood glucose level would be high. This...
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How does natural selection work?

Note: Keywords which are vital for marks will be highlighted in bold. Within all populations, there is variation. This is due to different alleles (types) of different genes being present in different indivi...
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Sexual Reproduction: How does a sperm and egg form a baby?

Once a month, following ripening, a single egg is released from a woman's ovaries during the menstrual cycle, with the hope of fertilisation. During the act of sexual reproduction, the father's sperm is depo...
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What is the difference between a gene and an allele?

A gene is a section of DNA or RNA that codes for a protein. Alleles are different versions of the gene. For example, if a gene coding for a particular enzyme mutated, then there would be two alleles of the g...
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What is the difference between a gene, a chromosome and DNA?

Genes, chromosomes and DNA are three vital components of cells and many students often confuse them with each other. DNA stands for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. DNA molecules contain the genetic code which is m...
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