In eukaryotes, the DNA strands are linear, and DNA polymerase can't replicate the very ends of the DNA strands! These ends are "protected" by repeated sequences called "telomeres." Either the chromosome gets shorter with each replication, or else a special enzyme-nucleic acid complex called telomerase adds new telomeres to the ends. A prokaryotic chromosome is circular and thus does not have the problem of having ended.
<span>Eukaryotic DNA is wound around histones, coiled, and supercoiled -- to replicate it, there have to be unwinding mechanisms, and mechanisms to reduce the degree of coiling. In prokaryotes, the winding problem is much less, and there aren't any histones.</span>
<span>Enzymes lower the activation rate of a reaction, thus lowering the energy needed to start a reaction.</span>
Answer:
interphase
Explanation:
Interphase is the most important phase of cell life cycle where it spends 90 percent its time in regulating the metabolic activities of the cell. In this phase cell undergoes several metabolic activities to maintain the growth of the cell.
There are three phases in interphase G1, S and G2. During this phase cell undergoes several changes that include cell grows, DNA replicates and prepare itself for mitosis.
Hence, the answer is "interphase".
Answer:
protein - amino acid
Explanation:
Proteins are one of the four major biomolecules in nature. Proteins are polymers of monomeric units called AMINO ACIDS. Amino acids are joined together by a type of covalent bond called PEPTIDE BOND to form proteins. Hence, since proteins are made up of amino acids, the hydrolysis of proteins will result in amino acids.
Hydrolysis is the breaking down of a large polymer into its monomeric unit with the release of water (H2O) molecule as a product. The bonds that forms between the respective amino acids are broken, hence, releasing the amino acids.
Answer:
Oxygen molecules in the tissues of the lung diffuse into the blood because the concentration of oxygen in the lung's tissues is more than the concentration of oxygen in the blood.
Explanation:
Diffusion is the movement of molecules from the region of higher concentration of the molecule to the region of lower concentration of the same molecule. Molecules in diffusion move <em>downward the concentration</em> <em>gradient</em> created by difference in concentration between two regions until an <em>equilibrium (equal concentration in the two regions)</em> is established.
Oxygen molecules diffuse into the tissues of the lung when an organism breathes-in during the process of breathing. The molecules in the now oxygen-rich tissues eventually start diffusing into the blood in the lung because the blood passing through the lung is always de-oxygenated or has lower oxygen concentration compared to the tissues of the lung.
Oxygenated blood moves into the heart, pumps round the body by the heart, gets depleted of oxygen and eventually find its way back to the lung where the process is repeated.
Diffusion of oxygen from the tissues of the lung into the blood will keep happening as long as oxygen keeps getting dissolved into the lung's tissues and an equilibrium is yet to be established between the tissues and the blood.
