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Plasma vs Interstitial Fluid   Water is the main component of body fluids. The body water can be found mostly in two major compartments called intracellular fluid and extracellular fluid. Intracellular fluid can be found within the cells of the body. The extracellular fluid can be found outside of the cells.... 

Pili vs Fimbriae   Pili and fimbriae are known as filamentous appendages, which are used mainly for adhesion. These structures are extremely fine appendages arising from the surface of bacteria and are firstly described by hoodwink and van Iterson. These are thinner than flagella and are not used in motility.... 

Guttation vs Transpiration   Plant absorbs a large amount of water irrespective of their daily requirements. But only 1% of this amount is utilized by plants while 99 % is lost from the aerial parts of the plant. The water is lost either in the form water vapor or rarely in liquid form. Depending on the form... 

Lock vs Key vs Induced Fit   Enzymes are known as biological catalysts, which are used in almost every cellular reaction, in organisms. They can increase the rate of a biochemical reaction, without the enzyme being changed itself by the reaction. Due to its reusability, even a small concentration of an enzyme... 

Physical vs Chemical Digestion   The process of breaking down foods in the elementary track to gain nutrients in the food is known as digestion. The obtained nutrients in this process are then absorbed into the circulatory system and circulated all over the body with the blood. These nutrients are essential... 

Focus vs Epicenter   Focus and epicenter are words that are commonly heard in geology when earthquakes and their causes are being taught. With similarities in between, these two terms cause a lot of confusion for the students. These words are frequently used while reporting incidents of earthquakes in media. This... 

Meiosis I vs Meiosis II   Meiosis is a complex cellular and biochemical process of which the chromosome number is halved during the formation of gametes in an organism. In this process, a diploid cell is converted into four daughter cells, each having haploid number of chromosomes. Meiosis is a special kind... 

Loose vs Dense Connective Tissue   Four types of basic tissues can be found in the human body; namely, epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue. Considering the structure and wide variety of functions, connective tissue is the most known diverse tissue out of all basic tissues.... 

Melting vs Dissolving   Melting and dissolving are theoretically physical and chemical phenomena, but they occur every day right in front of our eyes. Have you not seen ice melting down to water? Have you not seen how a cup of coffee is made? Well, those are melting and dissolving processes respectively that... 

Phylum vs Class   Biological classification or scientific classification of living beings is the grouping of animals according to morphological (external), molecular, and chemical similarities found in them. In this classification, there are eight major taxonomical ranks (levels) defined for an animal, plant,... 

Hydrolysis vs Dehydration Synthesis   Hydrolysis and dehydration synthesis are two main reactions used in organic synthesis procedures. Apart from their industrial and experimental uses these two reactions are especially important in biological systems. They play quite a big role in our metabolic activities... 

Lagging vs Leading Strand   DNA replication is an important biological process occurs in all living organisms with regards to their inheritance. In the process of replication, double helix of DNA molecule is unzipped, and each strand acts as a template for the daughter strand so that, the bases are matched... 

Synapse vs Synaptic Cleft   Nervous system is a collection of well organized cellular circuits that allow an animal to perform certain essential tasks for survival. These circuits are made up of specialized cells called neurons, which are needed to transmit electrical and chemical signals, process sensory... 

Leptons vs Quarks   It has been our understanding for over three hundred years that matter consists of atoms. Atoms are thought to be indivisible until the 20th century, but the 20th century physicist discovered that the atom can be broken into smaller pieces, and all the atoms are made of different compositions... 

Centromere vs Centriole   Both centriole and centromere are closely associated structures that are important in the process of cell division, in many organisms. During mitosis and meiosis, centrioles produce spindle fibers and centromeres provide the site of attachment to these fibers. Although they are closely... 

Cartesian Coordinates vs Polar Coordinates   In Geometry, a coordinate system is a reference system, where numbers (or coordinates) are used to uniquely determine the position of a point or other geometric element in space. The coordinate systems allow the geometrical problems to be converted into a numerical problem,...