The heart is connected with these main blood vessels - The superior and inferior vena cava - get oxygen-poor blood from the body into the... View Article
Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels. They reduce the space or volume in the affected blood vessels. It is a result of muscular... View Article
Cholecystokinin are hormones produced in the I-cells lining the duodenum. It is a gut hormone which is secreted after each meal and seemingly... View Article
Yes, Spider is an invertebrate. Spiders possess an exoskeleton comprising a cuticle constituting chitin. Its body is made of two main parts -... View Article
Yes, Golgi apparatus does help in protein synthesis. Golgi apparatus is one of the key organelles required for the synthesis of proteins. The... View Article
Lenticels in plants are tiny raised pores, typically elliptical. They develop from woody stems when the epidermis is substituted by the bark or... View Article
Oxidative phosphorylation is where ATP is formed from electron transport chains. ATP synthase is considered to be a part of the electron... View Article
Through the process of oxidative phosphorylation, ATP is formed from electron transport chains. The process occurs in mitochondria which has an... View Article
Oxidative phosphorylation is where ATP is formed from electron transport chains. The electrons are carried by NADH + H+ and FADH2 are channelized... View Article
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is typically released by the pituitary responding to the sensors which detect a decrease in the blood volume or a rise... View Article
Through the translocation phenomena, the sap passes through the phloem, which is the transportation of dissolved materials. Phloem is involved in... View Article
Peptidoglycan is a polymer of amino acids and sugars making up the cell walls of bacteria. This basic unit of the cell wall in bacteria presents... View Article
Gram staining is a common procedure to differentiate two large groups of bacteria on the basis of their different cell wall constituents.... View Article
Enzymes are pH-sensitive. Modification in the pH results in the ionization of amino acids molecules and atoms, altering the structure and shape... View Article
In the mitochondria, the activity of the electron transport chain generates proton potential. The ATP synthase utilizes this potential by... View Article
There are several factors affecting the rate of diffusion in the lungs, some are - Thickness of the membrane - rate of diffusion is faster... View Article
Usually, Pulmonary oedema is due to congestive heart failure. Blood backs up into veins which take blood through the lungs when the heart is... View Article
Activation energy can be lowered by enzymes in the following ways - Bonds in reactants can be stretched when they bind with enzymes making it... View Article
Enzymes accelerate chemical reactions, they are biological catalysts. They do so by reducing the amount of activation energy required for a... View Article
