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Observing animal species with exaggerated ornaments and weapons that do not seem of importance in the animal’s struggle for survival, Darwin created the concept of sexual selection to account for the evol...

light absorbed by pigment molecules (chlorophyll)causes electron to be raised to higher energy level; electron is passed along chain of carrier molecules in photosystem II

Epigenetic control of gene expression involves mechanisms that do not alter the sequence of DNA itself. External factors acting upon cells translate their signals via cascades to the nucleus, where they ...

The lock and key hypothesis suggests that the enzyme has a fixed shape/structure and the substrate has to fit into this exactly for catalysis to occur. The induced fit hypothesis is different in that it s...

Glycolysis is a metabolic process that takes place in the cytoplasm of a cell and occurs in both aerobic and anaerobic respiration pathways. One six-carbon compound is converted into two three-day on mol...