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She is dehydrated so osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus shrink, this causes ADH to be secreted by the pituitary gland. The ADH travels in the blood stream and acts on the collecting ducts of the kidney nep...

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1) plant cells have a cell wall whereas animal cells do not2) plant cells have vacuoles whereas animal cells do not3) plant cells have chloroplasts whereas animal ...

The process in which salt is removed from salt water to produce drinkable water is called desalination. There are two major mechanisms that humans use to achieve this: thermal desalination, or distillatio...

Traditionally we have classified living organisms into groups based on their structure and morphology (essentially how they look!). This was a system developed by a scientist called Linnaeus in the 1700's...

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells vary in may ways:Size: Prokaryotic cells are smaller than eukaryotic cells. Prokaryotic cells have a diameter of 0.1-0.5 micrometers whereas eukaryotic cells have a larger...