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Meiosis produces 4 daughter cells from the original parent cell. These cells are haploid cells- they have half the number of chromosomes that the parent cell, and the process creates gametes for sexual re...

Mitochondria is the power house of the cell, it's a membrane bound organelle which generates energy for cellular activity (e.g. protein production) by generation of ATP through aerobic (requires oxygen) r...

In prophase I of meiosis, homologous, non-sister chromatids form connections called chiasmata at matching loci. The complex then splits to give chromatids with different combinations of genes than were pr...

The first part of aerobic respiration is to convert glucose into pyruvate in a series of reactions known as glycolysis, which happens in the cytoplasm of cells. Glycolysis consumes 2 molecules of ATP and ...

The action potential arrives at the presynaptic knob and causes the depolarisation of the plasma membrane. This causes voltage gated calcium channels to open allowing calcium to diffuse into the presynapt...