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How do blood vessels help to control body temperature.

Body temperature must be maintained around 37°C as the enzymes in our body work best at this temperature. The thermoregulatory centre in the brain contains receptors that detect the temperature of blood, ...

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What is the equation for respiration?

C6H12O6 + 6O2 -----6CO2 + 6H2O

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Explain how ciliary muscles and elastic fibres change the shape of lens to a distant object

if you are looking at a far away object, your eyes don’t need to refract the light too much in order to focus it onto the retina. So in this case the lens shape should be flat instead of fat. And how this...

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Students placed some grass cuttings in a vacuum flask and attached a carbon dioxide sensor. Why would the carbon dioxide levels increase over a period of 20 days?

The decomposing microorganisms that contribute to the decay of the grass must respire and respiration leads to the production and release of carbon dioxide.

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Explain through Darwin's Theory of evolution how species become better adapted to their environment.

Darwin's Theory suggests that all populations have variation between them, this variation is primarily caused by mutations in DNA. If an individual within a species gains...

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