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Describe how air is moved in to and out of your lungs.

The process of moving air into and out of your lungs is called ventilation, or breathing. Ventilating the lungs is brought about by the contraction and relaxation of the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm...
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Explain the importance of mitosis?

Mitosis is one of the two types of cell division in eukaryotes. It results in two daughter cells that are identical to the parent cells. The daughter cells have the same alleles in order for the organism's g...
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Describe how proteins are processed and released from cells

Proteins travel to the Golgi Apparatus where they are modified (e.g. glycosylation) and packaged into vesicles. Vesicles then travel to, and fuse with, the cell surface membrane. This causes the release of p...
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As the volume of blood in the ventricles of the heart increases, with all other factors constant, stroke volume increases till a point. Explain why. (5)

Define stroke volume as the volume of blood expelled by the left ventricle into the aorta per contraction of the heart.Idea that as blood volume in the ventricle increases, this stretches the sarcomeres of c...
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How can natural selection create two different species from one species?

For speciation to occur, two populations of a species must become reproductively isolated. This can result from either the formation of a geographic barrier between two populations of the species, preventing...
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