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When pressure is applied to a Pacinian corpuscle the membrane is distorted, opening the stretch-mediated Na+ channels. This then allows Na+ ions to move in down their concentration gradient which increase...

Glycogen is a polysaccharide with many branches, these branches increase the available surface area for enzymes to hydrolyse the substrate. glycogen is used as a storage of glucose which allows for fast e...

Arbuscular Myccorhyzal fungi (AMF) are fungi which grow onto the roots of plants. In exchange for some carbon from the plant, the fungi act as an extension to the root space available to the plant. This p...

This is the net passive movement of molecules down the concentration gradient from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration, through ...

An allele is a variant or alternate form of gene which are found on same gene loci. Humans are diploid organisms having two alleles for a given gene. However in nature more than two variants are possible...