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What are the products of digestion of a) proteins, b) fats and c) carbohydrates?

a) Proteins, which are highly-folded poplypeptides, are broken down into shorter polypeptides, and then into amino acids, by protease enzymes.

b) Fats, or lipids, are broken down by enzym...

Answered by Beth S. Biology tutor
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What is the function of enzymes and give an example of one.

Enzymes are biological catalysts - they 'speed up' biological reactions - essentially increasing the rate at which they occur.

Pepsin is an enzyme that catalyses the digestion of proteins...

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What is active transport?

All of this is to do with moving stuff over a barrier called a cell membrane.

I want you to imagine the cell membrane to be like a border of a country and the stuff to be different pizzas...

Answered by Raj K. Biology tutor
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Explain how blood is pumped around the body

Oxygenated blood flows into the left atrium from the lungs via the pulmonary vein, when the left atrium contracts the blood flows down into the left ventricle via the mitral valve (which divides the at...

Answered by Raechel P. Biology tutor
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Describe how different environmental factors affect: the direction of growth of roots the direction of growth of shoots. In your answer you should refer to the role of plant hormones.

Here a thoroughly thought out response to the question should be formulated it is not enough to simply know the name and role of plant hormones within it.
Start with a factor, it is helpful to kn...

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