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Since the sperm cell's role is to swim to the egg and fertilise it, it requires a tail for movement. The middle piece is full of mitochondria to provide energy so that the sperm cell can swim and reach th...

An amino acid is made up of four groups bonded to a central carbon atom. These groups include a hydrogen atom, a carboxyl group, an amine group and a R group. The R group differs for each amino acid. A pe...

Transcription is the process of of copying DNA information from a DNA strand, to form an mRNA, that can later be used to produce a protein in translation. Transcription will involve the double helix of DN...

The base sequence changes so the amino acid sequence changes therefore leading to a change in the types and location of bond formation thus a change in the tertiary structure occurs. This prevents the enz...

Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions by providing an alternative reaction pathway with lower activation energy.