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Biology

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Decks in this class (17)

Unit 1.1 - Laboratory techniques for biologists
What is a hazard,
What is risk,
What is a linear dilution
16  cards
Unit 1.1(d) - Detecting proteins using antibodies
What are antigens,
What are antibodies,
What are immunoassays
7  cards
Unit 1.2(a) - Proteins, the proteome
What is the proteome,
The set of proteins expressed by ...,
What are the two reasons for prot...
7  cards
Unit 1.2(b) - Proteins, The synthesis and transport of proteins
What do eukaryotic cells have to ...,
What is the golgi apparatus,
What is the function of vesicles
5  cards
Unit 1.2(bii) - Proteins, Synthesis of membrane compartments
Where are lipids synthesised,
Where does the synthesis of all p...,
Where are cytosolic proteins synt...
9  cards
Unit 1.2(biii) - Proteins, Movement of proteins between membranes
What happens once the proteins ar...,
What happens to proteins as they ...,
Vesicles that leave the golgi do ...
3  cards
Unit 1.2(ci) - Proteins, Protein structure, ligand binding and conformational change
What does amino acid sequence det...,
What are proteins made from,
What joins amino acids
13  cards
Unit 1.2(cii) - Proteins, Ligand binding changes the conformation of a protein
What is a ligand,
What causes does ligand binding have,
Where do allosteric interactions ...
8  cards
Unit 1.2(ciii) - Proteins, Reversible binding of phosphate and the control of conformation
What do kinases do,
The addition or removal of phosph...,
Phosphorylation is carried out by
7  cards
Unit 1.3(a) - Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Movement of molecules across membrane proteins
What is the plasma membrane made ...,
What characteristics do the phosp...,
What are integral proteins
9  cards
1.4(a) - Co-ordination
How are extracellular signalling ...,
What are receptor molecules,
What happens when a signal molecu...
3  cards
1.4(b) - Hydrophobic signals and control of transcription
Since hydrophobic signal molecule...,
What do hydrophobic signal molecu...,
What are transcription factors
7  cards
1.4(c) - Hydrophilic signals
What do hydrophilic signals requi...,
Why can t hydrophilic signals pas...,
The signal must be ______ across ...
15  cards
1.4(di) - Generation of a nerve impulse
What is resting membrane potenital,
How is a membrane potential created,
What is action potential
8  cards
1.4(dii) - The vertebrate eye
What is the retina responsible for,
What ar the two types of photorec...,
What do rods do
9  cards
Extended response questions
Hydrophobic signaling molecules a...,
Insulin signalling and diabetes 4,
Discuss the structure of amino ac...
10  cards
1.5(a) - Protein control of cell division
What is the cytoskeleton,
What are microtubules,
What do microtubules do what is t...
9  cards

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