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The heart pumps the blood into the arteries with a very high pressure and the blood can therefore travel through them to the tissue of interest. The arteries are also very elastic, therefore they can puls...

Skeletal muscle has a variable requirement for energy (ATP) which depends on how hard the muscle is working. During severe exercise, when demand for ATP is high, the muscle can become tem...

1. The electron transport chain, consisting of four complexes that each export hydrogen to the inner membrane space, sets up a electrochemical gradient across the membrane2) The final complex, ATP Synt...

Polymerase Chain Reaction is an in vitro method used to amplify DNA fragments. It consists of three main steps, which are: (1) denaturing, (2) annealing, (3) and extension. During denaturation, ...

Competitive inhibitors permanently halt enzyme action by occupying the active site of the enzyme. They are specific to a particular enzyme due to their s...