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1.1a health and safety
What can present as a hazard in t...,
How do you control risk in a lab,
What is risk
5
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1.1b liquids and solutions
What are linear dilutions,
What are,
How would you produce a standard ...
5
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1.1c separation techniques
How does a centrifuge work,
What is paper and thin layer chro...,
What does the speed that each sol...
11
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1.1d detecting proteins using antibodies and microscopy
What are immunoassay techniques u...,
How do immunoassays work,
When is western blotting used
6
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1.1e aseptic technique and cell culture
What is the benefit of aseptic te...,
What does aseptic technique involve,
How can a microbial culture be st...
12
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1.2a the proteome + the synthesis and transport of proteins
What is the proteome,
Why is the proteome larger than t...,
What are genes that do not code f...
31
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1.2b protein structure
What determines protein structure,
What are proteins polymers of,
What are amino acids monomers of
23
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1.2c ligand binding and conformational change
What does ligand binding do,
What is a ligand,
What r groups can be allowed to b...
25
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1.3a Movement of molecules across membranes
How are integral membrane protein...,
What are one kind of integral mem...,
How are peripheral proteins held ...
20
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1.3b Ion transport pumps and generation of ion gradients
What forms the electrochemical gr...,
What is the membrane potential,
When is a membrane potential created
12
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1.4a Co-ordination
How do multicellular organisms si...,
Give 3 examples of extracellular ...,
What are receptor molecules of ta...
6
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1.4b Hydrophobic Signals and Control of Transcription
How can hydrophobic signalling mo...,
What are the receptors for intrac...,
What are transcription factors
7
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1.4c Hydrophilic Signals and Transduction
What happens to hydrophillic sign...,
Give 2 examples of hydrophilic ex...,
What happens to transmembrane rec...
14
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1.4d Generation of a Nerve Impulse
What is resting membrane potential,
What does the transmission of a n...,
What is an action potential
13
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1.4e Initiation of a nerve impulse in response to an environmental stimulus
What is the retina,
What are the two photoreceptor ce...,
What is the function of rods
13
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1.5a The Cytoskeleton and Cell Division
What is the function of the cytos...,
What is the structure of the cyto...,
What is the structure of microtub...
7
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1.5b The Cell Cycle
What does the cell cycle consist of,
What sections do interphase involve,
What happens in the mitotic phase
9
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1.5c Control of the Cell Cycle
What is progression through the c...,
What are checkpoints,
What do cyclin proteins do and wh...
9
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1.5d Control of Programmed Cell Death (apoptosis)
What is apoptosis triggered by,
What is an example of an external...,
What is an example of an internal...
9
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3.1 scientific principles and process
What is the scientific method,
What can scientific research be t...,
What does a null hypothesis propose
23
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3.2a Experimentation and pilot studies
What is the definition of validity,
What is the definition of reliabi...,
What is the definition of accuracy
7
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3.2b Experimental design
What is an independent variable,
What is a dependent variable,
What are the two different catego...
25
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3.2c Sampling and reliability
When is a representative sample o...,
What determines the appropriate s...,
When is a larger sample size requ...
17
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3.2d Presentation of data
What do discrete and continuous v...,
What is qualitative data,
What is quantitive data
17
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3.3a background information and reporting and evaluating experimental design
What should scientific reports co...,
What should background informatio...,
What should a title be
14
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3.3b Data analysis and evaluating results and conclusions
In results how should data be pre...,
How do you determine weather the ...,
What is a statistically significa...
8
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Things I forget
What is the definition of risk,
Give 2 examples of a control measure,
What is a linear dilution series
39
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Things I forget 2.0
What are the 3 rs in animal studies,
Define the 3 rs in animal studies,
How must scientific research be j...
51
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2.1a Health + safety and sampling of wild organisms
Give 4 hazards in fieldwork,
What is risk,
What does risk assessment involve
13
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2.1b Identification and Taxonomy
How can identification of an orga...,
Name 2 ways that organisms can be...,
What does taxonomy involve
15
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2.1c monitoring populations and measuring and recording animal behavior
What is the role of an indicator ...,
What is a susceptible species,
What is a favored species
16
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2.2a Drift and selection
What is evolution,
What happens during evolution,
What does variation in traits ari...
26
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2.2b Fitness and Co-evolution
What is fitness an indication of,
What is fitness a measure of,
What does fitness refer to
18
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2.3a Costs and Benefits of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
What are the costs of sexual repr...,
Explain the benefits and costs of...,
What is the role of genetic varia...
3
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2.3 b Meiosis
What is the definition if meiosis,
How do chromosomes in a diploid c...,
What are homologous chromosomes
10
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2.3c Sex Determination
What is the sex of birds mammals ...,
What determines the development o...,
Explain heterogametic males
9
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2.4a Parental Investment
Where is there greater investment...,
Benefit and downside of parental ...,
What are characteristics of r sel...
8
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2.5a Niche
What is an ecological niche,
What is a fundamental niche,
What is a realised niche
12
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2.5c Transmission and Virulence
What is transmission,
What is virulence,
How are ectoparasites generally t...
7
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2.5b Parasitic life cycles
Explain the number of hosts that ...,
Explain vectors in parasitic life...,
What is the human disease malaria...
13
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2.5d Defence Against Parasitic Attack
Explain immune response in mammals,
What are examples of non specific...,
What is the role of natural kille...
19
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2.5e Immune evasion
How do endoparasites evade the im...,
What is antigenic variation,
How do some viruses escape immune...
3
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2.5f Challenges in treatment and control
What is epidemiology,
What is the herd immunity threshold,
How do vaccines work
11
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2.4b Reproductive behaviours and mating systems in animals
What are mating systems based on,
What is monogamy,
What is polygamy
14
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2.3a Costs and Benefits of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
What are the costs of sexual repr...,
Explain benefits and costs of sex...,
What does genetic variation provi...
16
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