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An impulse stimulates the active release of a neurotransmitter from the relay neurone into the synapse. The neurotransmitter carrying the information from the relay neurone diffuses down the concentration...

Enzymes are proteins with specific tertiary structures. Part of this structure forms an active site. Only the substrate of an enzyme, in this case Maltose, fits/ binds to the active site. This forms an en...

During DNA replication, the two DNA strands separate and each acts as a template (due to base pairing) for DNA polymerase to use to make the second strand of DNA. As a result, each new DNA molecule has on...

6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2

Carbon dioxide + Water ---> Glucose + Oxygen

Think of DNA like 2 long shoelaces coiled around each other to form a spiral - or a double helix as it's called. Each of the 2 shoelaces is called a 'strand' and is made up of something called 'polynucleo...