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In a fish and chips shop, the potatoes are cut hours before they are cooked, but they must not dry out. To stop this, the owner soaks them in a salt solution. Define the process of osmosis and explain what would happen if you used distilled water.

Osmosis can be described as the movement of water from a high concentration to a low concentration through a semi permeable membrane.In this example the salt solution has roughly the same concentration of...

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What's the difference between Mitosis and Meiosis?

Mitosis is cell division which produces identical cells and Meiosis is cell division that produces Gametes for sexual reproduction.

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Identify the four chambers of the heart?

Left Atrium, left ventricle, right atrium and right ventricle

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Why do large organisms need specialised exchange systems and what are the features of an efficient exchange surface?

Large organisms have-High metabolic activity (used in movement, respiration, reproduction etc)Large distance between cells and the incoming oxygen that they requireA very small surface area to volume rati...

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What is the use of membranes within the cell?

Membranes within the cell are used in compartmentalisation for numerous reasons- one being to allow processes to occur separately in different organelles without interacting and affecting other processes,...

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