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We can break down the process of natural selection into a few steps: genetic variation within a population, a selective pressure which favours a particular trait, increased survival and therefore reproduc...

<p>There are two types of respiration that you need to know about - aerobic and anaerobic respiration. The main difference between the two types of respiration depend on whether oxygen is available ...

Phagocytosis begins when white cells called phagocytes recognise bacteria invading the body (pathogens). The cell membrane of one of these phagocytes then fuses around a single bacterium, engulfing it wit...

The process of breathing is made up of two components:

• Inhalation
• Exhalation

Inhalation is the process of filling the lungs with air. As they fill they expand and so th...

If two sequences of DNA from the same position along a DNA strand (locus) have a single change between them we call them single nucleotide (one base unit of DNA, A/T/C/G) polymorphism (poly- "many-&q...