• Question: What are the main biological processes in which calcium participates?

    Asked by meg123 to Amy, Karen, Sarah, Vijay, Will on 19 Jun 2012.
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      Karen Reed answered on 19 Jun 2012:


      Hi Meg – the one that springs to my mind is the vital role calcium plays in bone formation. But its actually a really REALLY important intracellular (that means within a cell) signalling molecule. So probably its role in signalling within and between cells is its main biological job

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