The skin has only 2 layers—epidermis and dermis. Hypodermis, if that’s what you have in mind as the third, isn’t considered part of the skin.
The epidermis is a barrier to infection, trauma, and water loss (dehydration); it’s important to our social interactions; and it’s the body’s largest sense organ. The dermis provides toughness and resistance to mechanical stress; provides blood vessels that come close to the epidermis and nourish it (but don’t enter it); contains a variety of sensory receptors for touch, heat, cold, pressure, and vibration; and is an arena of immune defense in which white blood cells can rally at a site of infection and fight off intruders.
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Judith Mcqueen
, former Theatre Tech at Manchester Royal Infirmary (1986-1990)
Answered Jan 16,
DNA can be found in both bacterial and animal cells
Answer: False
Explanation: Water would flow out of the cell because water moves down the concentration gradient (moves from high to low).
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The correct answer will be option-B
Explanation:
The environment of the stomach is acidic in nature maintaining value less than seven as it kills the microbes and helps activate the pepsin to digest the proteins.
The acidic nature of the gastric juice does not affect the stomach as the mucosa layer of the stomach secretes mucous and the if the cells get affected then the cells are repaired by the process of mitosis taking in the epithelial cells.
Thus, Option-B is the correct answer.
20, as there are only 20 amino acids, which are what make up proteins
