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Homeostasis

A nervous impulse travels to the neuromuscular junction and causes the release of acetylcholine into the synaptic cleft. Depolarisation of the motor end plate spreads through the muscle via transverse tub...

1. Red blood cells are shaped like a biconcave disc - increases SA:volume ration -> increase surface for oxygen to diffuse in and out of cell

2. Red blood cells are very small - 7...

Oxygen and carbon dioxide, dissolved in water, are exchanged by diffusion in the lungs. Blood travelling to the lungs is deoxygenated and instead of oxygen, carbon dioxide is bound to the red blood cells....

Prophase - everything in the cell duplicates, and the chromosomes condense Metaphase - chromosomes align in the middle of the cell and spindle fibres attach to the centromere (part holding the two sister ...