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Glycogen is a polysaccharide with many branches, these branches increase the available surface area for enzymes to hydrolyse the substrate. glycogen is used as a storage of glucose which allows for fast e...

Arbuscular Myccorhyzal fungi (AMF) are fungi which grow onto the roots of plants. In exchange for some carbon from the plant, the fungi act as an extension to the root space available to the plant. This p...

An enzyme is a biological catalyst which can speed up the rate of chemical reactions, it is also a protein that can be reused.
The lock and key model explains how an enzyme works to catalyse reactio...

Osmosis is a term used to describe the movement of water molecules from a high water potential to a low water potential. Diffusion is similar to this, however it is used to describe the movement of molecu...

The main bits of an animal cell are as follows: A nucleus - this is where the genetic material is kept for cell replication and repair Cytoplasm - this is the bit in between the other things in the cell -...