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Panama is a strip of land that has separated the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea for the past 3 million years. Explain how two different species of pistol shrimp could have developed from an ancestral species of shrimp

Panama has acted as a geographical barrier, separating two populations of ancestral shrimp - one in the Pacific and one in the Caribbean Sea.Random mutations will occur in both populations.Natural selecti...

Answered by Daniel R. Biology tutor
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How does the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood travel throughout the heart?

Human circulation is a closed system that may be divided into systemic and pulmonary circulation. The first one is a loop from the heart to the body. The second one is a loop from the heart to the lungs. ...

Answered by Julia Ż. Biology tutor
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How are the lung's alveoli adapted for efficient diffusion?

The alveoli are like small sacks present at the base of the lung, and are the site of exchange between the air we breathe and our blood. This exchange occurs by the process of diffusion, for which alveoli...

Answered by Eleanor G. Biology tutor
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Explain how HIV infects the body once it has entered the host

HIV is a retrovirus that infects specifically T helper cells / CD4 cells in the body.the glycoprotein (envelope protein) on the surface of the virus is able to bind to receptors on CD4 cells, and causes t...

Answered by Xiaobo (Ivy) J. Biology tutor
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give two features of DNA that is important for DNA replication

complementary base pairing - new strand can be synthesised based on the base sequence on the template strand, so that the resulting strand synthesised is identical to the coding strand.
hydrogen bon...

Answered by Xiaobo (Ivy) J. Biology tutor
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