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Amino acids

Blood vessels control body temperature both, when the temperature gets too high as well as when it gets too low, since heat is carried in the blood stream. When the core body temperature gets too high, the b...

To allow enzymes to function at an optimal temperature, in order to maintain a constant rate of metabolism. To prevent denaturing of enzymes such as pepsin (or other named enzyme).To avoid cell membranes bec...

Glucose is the main molecule used for respiration and is given the name of 'main respiratory substrate'. It is the main respiratory substrate in both aerobic and anaerobic respiration processes. Aerobic resp...

To start we need to ask: what causes an infection? The answer is a pathogen, which is a microbe that causes disease. These can be bacteria or viruses. A vaccine contains dead or inactive pathogens that are i...