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Why does the bacteria in a vaccine not harm us, but instead make us immune to diseases?

In order to build immunity to a bacteria only a tiny amount of 'inactivated' bacteria is put into the vaccine. Because the bacteria is dead/inactivated its not able to cause harm to our body but it will stil...
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What is Osmosis?

Osmosis is the diffusion of water molecules across a partially permeable membrane, from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration. For exam if you're on the tube you will go t...
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(b) In healthy lungs, a gradient is maintained between the concentration of oxygen in the alveoli and the concentration of oxygen in the lung capillaries. (i) Describe how ventilation helps to maintain this difference in oxygen concentration.

Ventilation of the lungs is a mechanism designed to maintain a high concentration of oxygen present in the alveoli. Blood is delivered to the lungs from the heart deoxygenated, meaning the majority of haemog...
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What is homeostasis?

Homeostasis is the body's ability to keep the body's internal environment at a condition of equilibrium, in response to any external changes. This includes body temperature, salt concentration, water concent...
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How could ionic interactions be used in DNA-RNA hybridisation?

The DNA double helix consists of many hydrogen bonds between the base pairs, but in addition there are negatively charged phosphate molecules as a key component of the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA strands...
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