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what is the role of phagocytes?

They squeeze through the walls of blood capillaries, moving through tissues to reach the site of infection. Phagocytes ingest pathogens by endocytosis (phagocytosis), a non-specific immunity, which doesn't d...
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how are arteries adapted for their function?

Arteries carry bloock away from the heart, towards bodyily tissues. They have thick walls to withstand high pressures, a narrow lumen to maintain high pressures and a thick layer of elastic fibres to maintai...
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Why does fetal haemoglobin have a higher affinity for oxygen than an adult haemoglobin?

In order to survive. By the time the blood reaches the placenta there is a lower concentration of oxygen in the blood, the fetal haemoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen so that the hb can bind to oxygen...
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Describe what happens to fish protein in the human stomach.

Digestion takes place in the stomach. Aside from physical digestion due to churning of the stomach muscle, chemical digestion is also important whereby hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach of pH 2, as w...
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Part of the retina of a young rat was removed and kept in the dark for two hours. This allowed the pigment in the rod cells to recover from bleaching caused by exposure to light. Suggest what happens in the rod cells during this two hours of darkness.

Rhodopsin is the pigment found in rod cells, which consists of cis-retinal and the protein opsin. When the rod cells are kept in darkness, the opsin is uncoupled from the cell surface membrane of the rod cel...
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