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Over-watering a plant can result in the soil around a plant's roots becoming saturated with water, reducing the amount of oxygen available to the roots. Using your knowledge of aerobic and anaerobic respiration, explain how over-watering can kill a plant.

When there is less oxygen available in the soil for uptake by plant roots, the root cells will be forced to increase their usage of anaerobic respiration over aerobic respiration. Anaerobic respiration pr...

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Describe the process of saprophytic nutrition in soil microorganisms

Enzymes are secreted by the microorganisms and extracellular digestion takes place as the enzymes break down any complimentary substrate. Next, the products of this digestion are absorbed into the microor...

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How is blood glucose concentration regulated?

It's important that glucose levels in the blood are kept at a constant, as glucose is a key component for cell respiration. The mechanisms for glucose regulation involve the hormones insulin and glucagon....

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How can a DNA mutation be neutral?

The effects of a mutation can be limited at several stages of gene expression. 1) Transcription: If the mutation is in a non-coding region, this is not transcribed into mRNA and so there is no change to t...

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What is the structure of DNA?

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. And what is DNA? Well, it’s basically a carrier of genetic information. DNA is found in all cells, and it contains the information needed for cells to live, to grow a...

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