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There are two types of enzyme inhibition: competitive and non-competitive. 

Competitive inhibition:
This occurs when an enzyme's active site is filled by an inhibit...

There are several ways in which a pathogen can cause disease. These can be seen in the Germ Theory of disease, made famous by Robert Koch.

These include releasing toxins (1) and damaging/...

It is important to first understand the concept of respiration. It is not the same as ventilation (breathing), as respiration is a chemical process that involves the breakdown of basic chemical molecul...

At a neuromuscular junction, an impulse arrives, causing Ca²⁺ to be released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum of your muscle cell (a system of membrane bound organelles around m...

The cardiac cycle consists of two phases, diastole and systole.

Diastole is when the heart is relaxing, allowing blood to flow into the chambers from the vena cava on the right side and t...