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Adaptations can be split into three categories: behavioural, physiological, and anatomical.
Behavioural adaptations are those that change the way an organism acts, such as how it int...

A synapse is a gap between two neurons and it can be thought of in 3 parts:
The presynaptic neuron - The neuron at the start of the synapse.
The synaptic cleft - The gap between the two neurons ...

When we think of immune defences, our minds may immediately jump to white blood cells such as macrophages or T lymphocytes, however there are actually many mechanisms by which our bodies fight infection b...

The method in which DNA replicates is called semi-conservative replication. Firstly, DNA helicase catalyses the break down of the hydrogen bonds between the base pairs in the DNA molecule. This partially ...

The phrase "one gene, one protein" is inaccurate, as shown by the example of haemoglobin: this protein contains prosthetic haem groups which are not made by the activity of any gene, therefore g...