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Explain the formation of Young Fold Mountains

Young Fold Mountains were formed around 35 million years ago but still form today. They are located in long, thin belts and are made of sedimentary rocks with granite and metamorphic rocks deep in the core. ...
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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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Explain how the sinoatrial node (SAN) ensures that oxygenated blood enters the aorta.

The sinoatrial node is a region found on the right atrium which acts as a pacemaker. Cells at the SAN can depolarise (become more positively charged with respect to the outside) and generate electrical activ...
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Prove that sin(x)+sin(y)=2sin((x+y)/2)cos((x-y)/2)

We know that 1. sin(a+b) = sin(a)cos(b)+sin(b)cos(a) and 2. sin(a-b) = sin(a)cos(b)-sin(b)cos(a) Add equations 1. and 2. sin(a+b)+sin(a-b) = 2sin(a)cos(b)+sin(b)cos(a)-sin(b)cos(a) = 2sin(a)cos(b) Let x=a+b ...
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