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What is the difference between the rough endoplasmic reticulum and the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?

The rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) has ribosomes bound to its surface, and it has a flattened-sac appearance. The RER is involved in packaging proteins to send to the Golgi apparatus. The smooth endoplasm...
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What is the difference between Dominant and Recessive alleles?

Alleles are different forms of a gene. For exanple if the gene is eye colour, the alleles would be the different colours (green, blue, brown) For every gene that you have, you get two alleles, one from your ...
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What is cancer and what are the most common types?

Cancer: what is it? A cancer happens when cells begin to divide out of control. Benign tumours are growths of abnormal cells which are contained in one area, usually within a membrane. They do not invade oth...
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How does photosynthesis happen?

The overall reaction in photosynthesis is 6CO2 +6H2O ------> C6H12O6 + 6CO2. The process can be broken down in to two main reactions.The Light Dependant reaction, which takes place in the Thylakoids.1.Lig...
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State the advantage for a plant of having many different accessory pigments in the photosystem:

This allows for the absorption of a range of different wavelengths of light.
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