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Similarities: - Both consist of a pentose sugar , a phosphate group and 4 nitrogenous bases. - Both are joined by covalent phosphodiester bonds between the phosphate and pentose sugar groups. Differences: - ...

-There are a large number of alveoli , increasing the surface area available for gas exchange. The alveoli have many infoldings , further increasing the surface area. - The walls of the alveoli are thin , th...

Up to the optimum temperature (around 37 degrees Celsius) kinetic energy increases. So the likelihood of successful collisions between the active site of the enzyme and substrate increases. More enzyme subst...

This is a process that occurs on the membrane of the mitochondria. Here the electrons are passed from one electron carrier to the next in a chain know as the electron transport chain. With each carrier being...

Proteins form from basic structures and fold into larger, more complex ones. They start as simple chains of amino acids, this is known as the primary structure of a protein. They then fold into secondary str...