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Unit 1 - Topic 1 - Laboratory Techniques for Biologists - Section A - Health and safety
What can present a hazard in a la...,
What is risk,
What is a risk assessment
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Unit 1 - Topic 1 - Laboratory Techniques for Biologists - Section B - Liquids and solutions
What is linear dilution,
What is log dilution,
How is a standard curve produced ...
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Unit 1 - Topic 1 - Laboratory Techniques for Biologists - Section C - Separation techniques
What is a centrifuge used for,
What are the names for the separa...,
What can be used for separating d...
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Unit 1 - Topic 1 - Laboratory Techniques for Biologists - Section D - Detecting proteins using antibodies
What are immunoassay techniques u...,
What do immunoassay techniques use,
What is an antibody specific to t...
7
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Unit 1 - Topic 1 - Laboratory Techniques for Biologists - Section E - Microscopy
Uses of bright field microscopy,
Explain fluorescence microscopy a...
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Unit 1 - Topic 1 - Laboratory Techniques for Biologists - Section F - Aseptic technique and cell culture
What does aseptic technique do,
What does aseptic technique involve,
How is a microbial culture started
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section A - The proteome
What is the proteome,
Why is the proteome larger than t...,
What are genes that do not code f...
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section B - The synthesis and transport of proteins - Part I - Intracellular membranes
What are does the internal membra...,
Why is the plasma membrane of euk...,
What does the er form
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section B - The synthesis and transport of proteins - Part II - Synthesis of membrane components
What are synthesised in the er,
What is the difference between ro...,
Where are lipids synthesised
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section B - The synthesis and transport of proteins - Part III - Movement of proteins between membranes
Qonce proteins are in the er how ...,
What do proteins undergo as they ...,
How do molecules undergo post tra...
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section B - The synthesis and transport of proteins - Part IV - The secretory pathway
Where are secreted proteins trans...,
Examples of secreted proteins,
Where do the proteins go and what...
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section C - Protein structure, ligand binding and conformational change - Part I - Amino acid sequence determines protein structure
What are proteins,
How are amino acids linked,
Amino acids have the same basic s...
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section C - Protein structure, ligand binding and conformational change - Part II - Ligand binding changes the conformation of a protein
What is a ligand,
What can allow binding to ligands,
What do binding sites have
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Unit 1 - Topic 2 - Proteins - Section C - Protein structure, ligand binding and conformational change - Part III - Reversible binding of phosphate and the control of conformation
What does the addition or removal...,
What catalyses the transfer of a ...,
Where is the terminal phosphate o...
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Unit 1 - Topic 3 - Membrane Proteins - Section A - Movement of molecules across membranes
What is the fluid mosaic model,
Describe the structure of the pla...,
What do regions of hydrophobic r ...
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Unit 1 - Topic 3 - Membrane Proteins - Section B - Ion transport pumps and generation of ion gradients
For a solute carrying a net charg...,
When is a membrane potential created,
Ion pumps such as what use what f...
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Unit 1 - Topic 4 - Communication and signalling - Section A - Co-ordination
How do multicellular organisms si...,
Examples of extracellular signall...,
What are receptor molecules of ta...
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Unit 1 - Topic 4 - Communication and signalling - Section B - Hydrophobic signals and control of transcription
What can hydrophobic signalling m...,
What are the receptors for hydrop...,
What are transcription factors
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Unit 1 - Topic 4 - Communication and signalling - Section C - Hydrophilic signals and transduction
What do hydrophilic signalling mo...,
What are examples of hydrophilic ...,
Transmembrane receptors change co...
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Unit 1 - Topic 4 - Communication and signalling - Section D - Nerve impulse transmission - Part I - Generation of a nerve impulse
What is resting membrane potential,
What does the transmission of a n...,
What is an action potential
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Unit 1 - Topic 4 - Communication and signalling - Section D - Nerve impulse transmission - Part II - Initiation of a nerve impulse in response to an environmental stimulus: the vertebrate eye
What is the retina,
What are rods and cones,
In animals what forms the photore...
13
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Unit 1 - Topic 5 - Protein control of cell division - Section A - The cytoskeleton and cell division
What does the cytoskeleton do,
What is the cytoskeleton made up of,
What are microtubules
7
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Unit 1 - Topic 5 - Protein control of cell division - Section B - The cell cycle
The cell cycle consists of what t...,
Describe interphase,
The mitotic phase involves what t...
9
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Unit 1 - Topic 5 - Protein control of cell division - Section C - Control of the cell cycle
What is progression through the c...,
What are checkpoints,
Cyclin proteins that accumulate d...
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Unit 1 - Topic 5 - Protein control of cell division - Section D - Control of programmed cell death
How is apoptosis triggered,
Examples of external and internal...,
What does an external death signa...
7
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