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That’s a really good question. Well are you familiar with the concept of Natural Selection? (assume correct explanation from the student). Yes, you’re right. It is in fact by this same mechanism that bact...

The electrical activity of the heart begins in the sinoatrial node which is a collection of pacemaker cells located in the right atrium. These cells spread electrical activity across the atrium causing bo...

Mitosis and meiosis are both types of cell division that produce new cells, known as daughter cells, but there are some differences;

Mitosis produces two identical new cells with two sets (or pairs...

When bacteria divide, random mutations in their DNA lead to differences in bacteria. Some of the bacteria will randomly develop genes that help them to survive a dose of anitbiotics (resistance). When a p...

Evolution by natural selection arises when these three properties are present in a system

• Heredity - offspring resemble their parents in discrete characteristics.

• Variat...