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Describe the process of Eutrophication?

Eutrophication occurs when heavy rains cause fertalizers from farmland to flow into rivers or lakes. These fertalizers lead to a reduction to the limiting factors of algal growth by providing phosphate and n...
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Answered by Jack G. • Biology tutor
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Glycogen and amylose are used for energy storage. Glycogen is found in animals. Amylose is found in plants. Describe how the structure of glycogen allows it to perform its function and explain the advantage to animals of using glycogen as an energy

First of all I'd realise that the questions is asking you to make a comparison between glycogen and amylose and their suitability, so would advise the candidate to make two separate bullet point lists for pl...
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Describe the Benedict's test for reducing sugars and how this can be modified to test for non-reducing sugars

Take 1-2cm 3 of the sample in a test tubeAdd a few drops of Benedict's reagent to the test tube Heat the test tube in a water bath Leave for 5 minutes Observe the colour of the precipitate formed no precipit...
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What is the process of therapeutic cloning?

Therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), is the process of producing stem cells that are a genetic match to a patient, for use in therapy. First, the nucleus of a donor egg ce...
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what are the risk factors for coronary heart disease and what is it?

Coronary heart disease involves the arteries supplying the heart, known as the coronary arteries. There are two arteries namely the left and right coronary arteries. Healthy coronary arteries are nice and wi...
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