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What are the comon features of an animal cell and what are there functions?

Cytoplasm: A jelly-like material that contains dissolved nutrients and salts and structures called organelles. It is where many of the chemical reactions happen.Nucleus: Contains genetic material, includi...

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Provide an overview of the events occuring during a specific immune response.

Our body's immune system is responsible for preventing our organism's infection from foreign ones. Any such foreign particle that may trigger an immune response is known as an antigen. What's really impre...

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Outline how the first neurone communicates with the second neurone at a synapse.

The neurotransmitter e.g. Acetylcholine is excocytosed at the presynaptic membrane, the neurotransmitter diffuses across the synaptic cleft, down its concentration gradient, then attaching to complementar...

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Guillain-Barré syndrome and multiple sclerosis both cause muscle weakness and loss of muscle function. Suggest and describe how the function of neuromuscular junctions will be affected by Guillain-Barré syndrome and multiple sclerosis.

As both disorders reduce the speed at which nerve impulses are conducted, there will be fewer action potentials conducted at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). With fewer action potentials...

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Explain why podocytes are usually unable to undergo mitosis.

The podocytes are arrested at G0 of the cell cycle. If podocytes frequently underwent mitosis, it would alter the number and ...

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