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Mitosis is a form of asexual reproduction in plants. A parent cell splits into 2 identical daughter cells. There are 46 Chromosomes in each cell and each chromosome is copied exactly, using chromatids to ...

Viruses are parasitic organisms that cannot survive outside a living host. They are considered to be non-living, however this still remains debatable amongst virologists. They infect their host and utilis...

The action potential arriving at the presynaptic membrane causes the voltage gated calcium ion channels on the presynaptic membrane to open. This causes an influx of calcium ions into the presynaptic neur...

There would be variation in the length of necks in the early giraffe population.

Those who had longer necks would have an advantage for survival as they would be able to reach higher into the trees...

This is a result of natural selection. Natural selection is the result of a barrier, physical such as the ocean or a volanco eruption. This barrier seperates members of a species. One genetic mutation occ...