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How do glucose and oxygen get into the blood to be used for respiration?

When we breathe we inhale oxygen from the air into our lungs. The alveoli are tiny air sacs in the lung where oxygen diffuses into the blood via small blood vessels, known as capillaries. The blood in these ...
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Describe briefly how you would show that manganese(II) ions catalyse the reaction between manganate(VII) ions and ethanedioate ions, in dilute sulphuric acid.

Mix the reagents and record the time taken for a specific observation, e.g. disappearance of colour which is characteristic for this chemical reaction. We repeat this step and add more manganese(II) ions; a ...
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How is a root hair cell specialised to its function?

Root hair cells have a very large surface area due to them being very long and having hair like projections. This allows more active transport of mineral ions to take place so the plant is able to take in as...
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What is saltatory conduction?

Motor neurones have a myelin sheath made of Shwann cells. It's an electrical insulator meaning action potentials cannot pass through them. Along the axon there are gaps where there's no myelin sheath, called...
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Analyse pages 38-39 of Regeneration making connections between landscape and mindscape, and relate to page 184

In Regeneration, Pat Barker explores the horrific consequences of war upon the human psyche. This is primarily demonstrated in the character of Burns, a man unable even to eat due to his damaging experience ...
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