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In short Aerobic is with oxygen - think aero=air, therefore oxygen is present. This process also produces more energy and takes place on mitochondria only producing carbon dioxide and water from glucose a...

1. An action potential arriving at the pre-synaptic membrane stimulates voltage-gated calcium channels to open and calcium ions diffuse into the neuron through these calcium channe...

(using diagram of synapse between relay and motor neurone)

This is the relay neurone and this is the motor neurone, the gap in between the neurones is called the synapse. Information is passed from...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus occurs when the body's immune system attacks beta cells within the Islets of Langerhans, in the pancreas. The immune system recognises pancreatic self-antigens as foreign and begi...

Mitosis is a form of cell division that produces genetically identical cells and it includes 4 main stages. Before Mitosis can occur the cell undergoes Interphase, in which DNA and organelles are replicat...