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Thinking of osmosis represented by two water towers attatched with a pipe at the bottom helped me to understand. If one tower has a higher level of water than the other, water will flow into the other ...

Multicellular organisms show emergent properties; these are properties that exist due to many different components working together. For example, your lungs work and help you breathe due to all of the ...

An impulse reaches the pre-synaptic neurone, as it does so, the impulse stimulates voltage-gated calcium channels to open, allowing an influx of calcium ions into the pre-synaptic bouton. This stimulat...

It can lead to an increase in the population size of strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as MRSA

Temperature - the light-independent reaction is temperature sensitive due to being enzymed controlled

CO2 - Is needed as a source of carbon

Light intensity- Needed to 'excit...