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Secondary Structure
The secondary structure of a protein refers to the basic foldings of a protein the forms of:
1. an alpha helix
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Electical impulses usually arrive at the dendrites of a neuron. These then pass through the cell body and a propagated down the longest part of the neuron, the axon.Resting potentialThis is the pot...

Saturated fatty acids do not have any carbon-carbon double bonds and are therefore linear molecules.

Monosaturated fatty acids have one carbon-carbon double bond, creating one kink in the...

Mitosis is the process of cell division for the purpose of cell regeneration. A parent cell duplicates its DNA and separates into two daughter cells which are identical to the parent and have two sets ...

In genetics, sometimes it is not easy to tell if an organism is heterozygous (having two different alleles of a gene) for a certain trait or if it is a homozygous (having the same identical alleles of ...