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Mitosis is the process of cell division for the purpose of cell regeneration. A parent cell duplicates its DNA and separates into two daughter cells which are identical to the parent and have two sets ...

Autoregulation is the ability of any vascular bed to maintain its capillary blood supply/perfusion pressure fairly constant despite changes in mean (systemic) arterial pressure. Autoregulatory control mus...

The process of gel electrophoresis uses the fact that DNA fragments are negatively charged (due to the bulky, negative phosphate groups within the sugar-phosphate backbone) in order to pull the fragments ...

Osmosis is the movement of water from a high concentration to a low concentration through a partially permeable membrane. It is a special type of diffusion.

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Information passes through nerves rapidly in the form of action potentials, or transient changes in voltage across the nerve cell membrane. Nerve cells, or neurons, are able to transmit action potentia...