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How does a plant respond to light?

Plants have cells within them called photoreceptors. These receptors are light sensitive and the plant can detect the strength and direction of light, which is important for photosynthesis. The mechanism of ...
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What are the different stages of mitosis and what do they consist of?

Mitosis can be grouped into four main stages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Prophase: the chromosomes supercondense, the nuclear envelope disintegrates and the centrioles migrate to the poles ...
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What's the difference between the light dependent and independent reactions?

The light dependent and light independent reactions are two stages of photosynthesis that overall utilise light energy to fix carbon dioxide into sugar molecules. There are however major differences between ...
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What are the processes of transcription?

Transcription is the first stage of protein synthesis, it occurs in the NUCLEUS. The main purpose is to make an mRNA (messenger RNA) copy of a gene - it is like a photocopy. There are 4 main stages.... Numbe...
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What is the difference between a Prokaryote and a Eukaryote?

The most important difference between these two types of organisms is that Eukaryotes possess a cell nucleus to store DNA, the cells genetic information, whereas Prokaryotic DNA is free flowing in the cytopl...
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