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What is the importance of maintaining a constant body temperature in mammals?

It's very important to maintain the optimum body temperature in mammals, in particular in relation to enzymes and enzyme controlled processes. There will be the optimum temperature for enzymes where they wor...
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Lipids are molecules that are derived from

3 Fatty acid chains and 1 Glycerol
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Describe the steps in protein synthesis

Firstly, you have tRNA which has a complementary amino acid sequence (anticodon) to the mRNA chain (codon), the latter is derived from dsDNA. tRNA brings specific amino acids to the mRNA in sites of protein ...
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What is the role of the kidneys and how does it function to do its job?

The main role of the kidney is to filter the blood, to remove toxins like urea and then via various methods, parts of the kidney are able to reabsorb many of these filtered substances back for example, gluco...
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Two snails belong to the same species. Yellow shelled snails found in grassland areas, dark shelled ones in woodland. Shell colour determined by genes. Explain how natural selection could have caused this distribution of snails

The yellow banded shell provides camouflage to the snail in grassland areas. These are more difficult for the birds to see, so less are eaten by predation. As a consequence, more yellow banded snails survive...
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