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Enzymes are proteins that are folded into specific shapes to allow for certain 'substrates', the other molecule involved, to bind. This area of binding is known as the 'active site', as it's where all ...

All of this is to do with moving stuff over a barrier called a cell membrane.

I want you to imagine the cell membrane to be like a border of a country and the stuff to be different pizzas...

Proteins are made up of long chains of amino acids (polypeptides) joined together by condensation reaction.Primary structureThe proteins primary structure is the sequence and order of ami...

Oxygenated blood flows into the left atrium from the lungs via the pulmonary vein, when the left atrium contracts the blood flows down into the left ventricle via the mitral valve (which divides the at...

Mitosis consists of one stage whereas meiosis consists of two stages.

Mitosis produces diploid cells (46 chromosomes) whereas meiosis produces haploid cells (23 chromosomes).

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