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Active site of (enzyme) has a specific active site, complementary to (substrate). Only that (substrate) can bind to this active site to form an enzyme substrate complex.  

We inherit two copies of a gene called alleles, one from each parent. The alleles we inherit from our parents can either be dominant or recessive. A dominant allele requires just one copy of the allele to...

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...