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Inside the kidneys there are millions of nephrons which filter the blood. They do this by having blood build up a high pressure in the glomerulus (a ball of capillaries) so that the small molecules (e.g. ...

Your heart pumps blood from its left side, through the aorta (the main artery leaving the heart) and into the arteries. The blood travels through your arteries, which divide off into smaller and smaller b...

plants uses carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. plants use carbon to make carbohydrates and cellulose. animals then eat plants and carbon is passed down. Animals then respire and release carbon dioxide ...

Mitosis: Will produce 2 daughter cells that are genetically IDENTICAL. Used for growth and repair. Meiosis: Produces 4 daughter cells from a parent cell and they will all be genetically unique. Will produ...

Inhibitors INHIBIT the ACTIVITY OF ENZYMES. This means fewer enzymes are able to break up substrate, and so whatever reaction is taking place, slows down. Inhibitors can be found for example, in poison or...