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What is the difference between a competitive and a non-competitive inhibitor?

Inhibitors are molecules that stop substrates from being able to bind to their enzymes, and therefore inhibit the action of specific enzymes. A competitive inhibitor is an inhibitor which has a similar shape...
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A man has a disease caused by a dominant allele. The mother has the disease but the father does not, explain how we know the man is heterozygous for this disease.

So first we must gather the informaton, the disease is caused by a dominant allele, we may call this 'D', the recessive could therefore be 'd'. The mother has the disease, but the father does not. Therefore ...
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How are action potentials generated in a neuron?

A stimulus at the receptor end of the neuron causes the membrane to become more permeable to Na+ ions. Because there is a higher concentration of Na+ on the outside of the cell the flood into the cell down t...
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Suggest how the two sub-species have developed from a single ancestral population.

Two populations become separated by a barrier such as sea (geographical separation). As a result populations cannot interbreed, hence gene flow between two populations is prevented. As a consequence, only a ...
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What is an enzyme?

An enzyme is a catalyst / which speeds up a reaction. It's a protein and/or it's specific (due to its active site)
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