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Cellulose is a linear polysaccharide polymer with many glucose monosaccharide units. The linkage is beta, which makes it different from starch. This difference results in a major different in digestibilit...

Each kidney contains 1000s of nephrons and this is where a process called ultrafiltration occurs. Blood from the renal artery flows through the glomerulus at high pressure. The glomerulus is a bundle of c...

Sex-linked genes are located on the sex-chromosomes, X and Y. Females have two X-chromosomes, XX, and males have one X and one Y-chromosome, XY. The X-chromosome is much larger than the Y-chromosome and s...

Firstly, DNA is transcripted into mRNA inside the nucleus, controlled by RNA polymerase. The DNA is unwound by RNA polymerase into two strands. There is complimentary base pairing between the template str...

Both mitosis and meiosis are methods of cell division. Mitosis is cell division where the DNA of the parent molecule is duplicated then split into 2 identical daughter cells. Mitosis is split into 4 stage...