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Discuss the key themes presented in W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’

Musee des Beaux Arts employs a form of ekphrasis in order to illuminate and critique the policy of appeasement adopted by Britain and France in the late 1930s. Auden describes Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s pai...
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Describe the basic structure of a cell membrane?

Made of structrues called phospholipids with a polar, hydrophobic head region and a non-polar hydrophillic region. Formation of a bilayer. Contains cholesterol which binds to the fatty acid tails to add sten...
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Why are Amines more basic than Amides?

The lone pair of electrons on the amine are more available to accept a proton and act as a base. This is because in amides, the carbonyl (C=O) group is highly electronegative, so has a greater power to draw ...
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What is a hormone and what do they do?

A hormone is a chemical messenger which travels in the blood. Hormones cause other tissues and organs to either produce other hormones or carry out chemical reactions. Water-soluble hormones cause this by bi...
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Define Electronegativity

It is the TENDANCY of an atom to attract a PAIR of electrons in a COVALENT bond.
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