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1a- Health and Safety
What is a hazard,
What are some examples of hazards...,
What is risk
5
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1b- Liquids and Solutions
What is characteristic of a linea...,
What is characteristic of a log d...,
How can unknown concentrations be...
7
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1c- Separation Techniques
What is a centrifuge and what doe...,
What are the two parts of a centr...,
What kind of substances can paper...
13
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1d- Detecting proteins using antibodies
Immunoassay techniques use antibo...,
What are immunoassay techniques u...,
What are monoclonal antibodies
7
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1e- Microscopy
What is bright field microscopy u...,
How does fluorescence microscopy ...
2
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1f- Aseptic technique and cell culture
Why is aseptic technique necessary,
What does aseptic technique involve,
How can a microbial culture be st...
11
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1g- The Proteome
What is the proteome,
Why is the proteome larger than t...,
What are genes that do not code f...
4
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1h- Intracellular membranes
Why do eukaryotic cells have a sy...,
What does the endoplasmic reticul...,
What
5
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1i- Synthesis of membrane components
Where are lipids and proteins syn...,
What is the difference between th...,
Where are lipids synthesised
7
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1j- Movement of proteins between membranes
What happens when proteins are in...,
What happens as proteins move thr...,
How do molecules move through the...
6
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1k- The secretory pathway
Where are secreted proteins trans...,
What are examples of secreted pro...,
What happens to secreted proteins...
6
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1l- Amino acid sequence determines protein structure
What are proteins,
What are amino acids linked with ...,
Amino acids all have the same bas...
19
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1m- Ligand binding changes the conformation of a protein
What is a ligand,
R groups are not involved in prot...,
What will a binding site have for...
14
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1n- Reversible binding of phosphate and the control of confirmation
What can the addition or removal ...,
What do protein kinases do,
What happens to the terminal phos...
8
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1o- Movement of molecules across membranes
What do regions of hydrophobic r ...,
What do integral membrane protein...,
What can some integral membrane p...
21
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1p- Ion transport and generation of ion gradients
For a solute carrying a net charg...,
When is a membrane potential an e...,
What is an example of an ion pump
12
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1q- Co-ordination
How do multicellular organisms si...,
What are three examples of extrac...,
What are receptor molecules of ta...
7
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1r- Hydrophobic signals and control of transcription
What is a special feature of hydr...,
What are the receptors for hydrop...,
What are transcription factors
8
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1s- Hydrophilic signalling molecules and transduction
What do hydrophilic signalling mo...,
What are two examples of hydrophi...,
What do transmembrane receptors d...
14
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1t- Generation of a nerve impulse
What is the resting membrane pote...,
What does the transmission of a n...,
What is an action potential
16
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1u- Initiation of a nerve impulse in response to an environmental stimulus
What is the retina,
What can be said about rod cells,
What can be said about cone cells
14
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1v- The cytoskeleton and cell division
What does the cytoskeleton do,
What does the cytoskeleton consis...,
What are microtubules
8
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1w- The cell cycle
What two stages does the cell cyc...,
What are the three parts of inter...,
What two parts does the miotic ph...
10
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1x- Control of the cell cycle
What is progression through the c...,
What are checkpoints,
What are cyclin proteins that acc...
15
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1y- 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...
7
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2a- Health and safety
What are four examples of hazards...,
What is risk,
What does a risk assessment involve
3
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2b- Sampling of wild organisms
How should sampling be carried out,
When sampling what must considera...,
What must be appropriate to the s...
5
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2c- Identification and taxonomy
Identification of an organism in ...,
In what two ways can organisms be...,
What does taxonomy involve
13
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2d- Monitoring populations
What can the presence absence or ...,
What can be used to monitor an ec...,
What indicates that a species is ...
9
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2e- Measuring and recording animal behaviour
What are three pf the measurement...,
What is latency,
What is frequency
7
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2f- Drift and selection
What is meant by the term evolution,
During evolution how do changes i...,
What does natural selection act on
26
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2g- Fitness
What is fitness an indication of,
What is fitness a measure of,
What does fitness refer to
6
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2h- Co-evolution
What is co evolution,
What does a change in traits of o...,
Where is co evolution frequently ...
10
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2i- Costs and benefits of sexual and asexual reproduction
What are two costs of sexual repr...,
Why do benefits outweigh costs in...,
What does genetic variation provi...
17
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2j- Meiosis
What is meiosis,
In diploid cells how do chromosom...,
What are homologous chromosomes
14
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2k- Sex determination
What is the sex of birds mammals ...,
In most mammals what determines d...,
What do heterogametic males xy lack
14
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2l- Parental investment
What can be said about a female e...,
There is greater investment from ...,
Parental investment is costly but...
15
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2m- Reproductive behaviours and mating systems in animals
What are mating systems based on,
What are the four mating systems,
What is monogamy
17
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2n- Niche
What is an ecological niche,
What is a species fundamental niche,
What is a species realised niche
6
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2o- The parasitic niche
What is parasitism,
How is parasitism unlike predator...,
What kind of niche do most parasi...
6
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2p- Parasitic life cycles
How many hosts do parasites requi...,
What is the definitive host,
As well as a definitive hos what ...
11
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2q- Transmission and virulence
What is transmission,
What is virulence,
How are ectoparasites generally t...
9
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2r- Defence against parasitic attack
Immune response in mammals has bo...,
What does epithelial tissue do,
What are examples of chemical sec...
13
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2s- Immune evasion
What are ways in which parasites ...
1
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2t- Challenges in treatment and control
What is epidemiology,
What is the herd immunity threshold,
What do vaccines do
9
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3a- Scientific method
What are the four stages in the s...,
What does the null hypothesis pro...,
When is the null hypothesis rejected
5
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3b- Scientific literature and communication
What should be included in scient...,
Why is it important that all find...,
What is peer review
5
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3c- Scientific ethics
Integrity and honesty are of key ...,
What reduces the opportunity for ...,
What are the 3 r s used in animal...
7
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3d- Pilot study
A pilot study is integral to the ...,
Wh,
What can a pilot study ensure
4
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3e- Experimental design
What is the difference between th...,
What can independent and dependen...,
What do experiments involve
22
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3f- Sampling
Where it is impractical to measur...,
What determines the appropriate s...,
What kind of populations need a l...
11
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3g- Reliability
What may variation in experimenta...,
How can the reliability of measur...,
How can the natural variation in ...
8
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3h- Presentation of data
What are the 3 kinds of data that...,
What are discrete variables,
What are continuous variables
26
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3i- Background information
What 3 things should scientific r...,
What should the introduction of a...,
What should an introduction explain
4
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3j- Reporting and evaluating experimental design
What should a method section contain,
What should experimental design a...,
Under what 4 conditions can an ex...
8
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3k- Data analysis
After carrying out a procedure re...,
How should data be presented so t...,
What should consideration be give...
8
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3l- Evaluating results and conclusions
What should conclusions do,
What should consideration be give...,
What should the evaluation of con...
7
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