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Mitosis is the replication and division of a cell to produce 2 Identical daughter cells. It happens in all somatic cells all over the body. Meiosis is specific to germ cells (ovaries and ...

A Biome is a collection of ecosystems that share similar climatic conditions and so have have similar vegetation types.Types of biomes: Tropical(near the equator), Savannah (Africa), Chaparral (Texas, San...

Upon reading Metamorphosis I had not considered the importance of temporal and spacial however the interactive oral greatly deepened my understanding, as we discussed the relevance of cultural, social and...

Stimulus arrives and changes membrane polarity to the threshold to elicit an action potential (all or nothing nature). Depolarisation- sodium ion channels open increasing the membrane polarity Repolarisat...

The sliding filament mechanism allows for muscle contraction. When an action potential arrives it travels through the sarcoplasmic reticulum and spreads down the transverse tubules into the muscle belly c...