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What is the Difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids?

Firstly, saturated fatty acids are where all the carbon atoms have single bonds between them making the lipid saturated as no more hydrogens can be added. Having

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What is the difference between breathing and respiration?

Breathing is the physical process where you inhale and exhale air in and out of your lungs. Inhaling brings in air containing Oxygen, which is absorbed and exchanged for Carbon Dioxide. The Carbon Dioxide...

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What are the names given to the body's first and second line of defence against disease? Name an example for each and how it works to prevent disease.

The first line of defence is passive immunity. An example is the skin and its job is to prevent a pathogen entering the body in the first place. Pathogens cannot penetrate the skin. The second line of def...

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Describe transcription and translation.

Transcription is the making mRNA from DNA. Translation is using the mRNA to code for a protein.

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Describe the path of electrical activity through the heart, starting at the sino-atrial node.

The electrical activity is initiated by the pacemaker of the heart, the sino-atrial node at the top of the left atrium. This spreads across the atria before reaching the atrio-ventricular node. Here there...

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