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1.1.1 health and safety in the lab
What can present a hazard in the lab,
What are examples of hazards that...,
What is a risk
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1.1.2 liquids and solutions
How do dilutions in a linear dilu...,
How do dilutions in a log dilutio...,
What does plotting measured value...
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1.1.3 separation techniques
What can centrifuges separate,
Where do the more dense component...,
Where do the less dense component...
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1.1.4 detecting proteins using antibodies
Which techniques are used to dete...,
What do immunoassay techniques us...,
What are monoclonal antibodies
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1.1.5 microscopy
What is bright field microscopy u...,
How doe fluorescence microscopy work
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1.1.6 aseptic technique and cell culture
What does aseptic technique do,
How is aseptic technique brought ...,
How can a microbial culture be st...
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1.2.1 proteins - the proteome
What is the proteome,
Is the proteome larger than the n...,
Is the proteome smaller than the ...
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1.2.2 the synthesis and transport of proteins
What sort of system do eukaryotic...,
Why do eukaryotes have a relative...,
How does the small surface area t...
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1.2.3 protein structure, ligand binding, conformational change
What determines protein structure,
What are proteins,
What are amino acids linked with ...
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1.3.1 membrane proteins; movement of molecules across membranes
What do regions of hydrophobic r ...,
What do integral membrane protein...,
What are some integral membrane p...
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1.3.2 ion transport pumps and generation of ion gradients
What needs to combine to form the...,
What does the combination of the ...,
What is membrane potential
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1.4.1 communication and signalling; coordination
How do multicellular organisms si...,
What are some examples of extrace...,
What are receptor molecules of ta...
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1.4.2 hydrophobic signals and control of transcription
Where can hydrophobic signalling ...,
Where do hydrophobic signalling m...,
What are receptors for hydrophbic...
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1.4.3 hydrophilic signals and transduction
Do hydrophilic signalling molecul...,
What do hydrophilic signalling mo...,
What are examples of hydrophilic ...
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1.4.4 nerve impules transmission
What is meant by resting membrane...,
What does the transmission of a n...,
What is an action potential
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1.4.4.2 the vertebrate eye
What is the retina,
What are the two photoreceptor ce...,
What are rods
23
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1.5.1 the cytoskeleton and cell division
What does the cytoskeleton do,
What does the cytoskeleton consis...,
What are microtubules
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1.5.2 the cell cycle / 1.5.3 control of the cell cycle
What does the cell cycle consist of,
What does interphase involve,
What does mitotic phase involve
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1.5.4 control of programmed cell death
How is apoptosis triggered,
What is the production of death s...,
What is dna damage an example of
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3.2.1 independent and dependent variables
What is an independent variable,
What is a depenent variable,
What are the two types of indepen...
11
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3.2.2 confounding variables
Why could it be said there are ot...,
What is a confounding variable,
What can be done to minimise the ...
5
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3.2.3 controls / 3.2.4 in vivo and in vitro
What are control groups,
What is a negative control group,
What is a positive control group
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3.3 sampling
When is a representative sample o...,
What determines sample size,
Do more variable populations requ...
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3.1.1 scientific method
What are the stages to the scient...,
In science refinement of ideas is,
Scientific knowledge can be thoug...
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3.1.2 scientific literature and communication / 3.1.3 scientific ethics
What are common methods of sharin...,
Why is it important to publish me...,
What is peer review
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3.2 experimentation
What does validity mean,
What does reliability mean,
What does accuracy mean
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3.2.4 reliability
What can result in variation in e...,
How can the reliability of measui...,
What does the variation observed ...
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3.2.5 presentation of data
What do discrete and continuous v...,
What is qualitative data,
What is quantitative data
10
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3.3.1 reporting and critical evaluation of biological research; background information
What should scientific reports co...,
What criteria does background inf...,
What should a title provide
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3.3.2 reporting and evaluating experimental design
What should a method section contain,
What should experimental design a...,
When is an experimental design in...
10
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3.3.3 data analysis
How should data be presented in r...,
What are statistical tests used t...,
How do you know if a result is st...
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3.3.4 evaluating results and conclusions
What should conclusions refer to,
What should be taken into account...,
Consideration should be given as ...
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3.1.2 scientific ethics
What are the concepts of replacem...,
Under what terms does the value o...,
As a result of the risks involved...
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3.2.1 pilot studies
What is a pilot study used for,
What does the use of a pilot stud...,
What can the use of a pilot study...
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2.1 health and safety
What can aspects of fieldwork pre...,
What are examples of hazards in f...,
What is a risk
5
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2.1.2 sampling of wild organisms
How should sampling be carried out,
What should consideration been gi...,
What must be appropriate to the s...
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2.1.3 identification and taxonomy
How can identification of an orga...,
How can organisms be classified,
What does taxonomy involve
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2.1.4 monitoring populations
What can the presence absence or ...,
What can be used to monitor an ec...,
What does the absence or reductio...
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2.1.5 measuring and recording animal behaviour
What are the different measuremen...,
What is latency,
What is frequency
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2.2.1 evolution: drift and selection
What is evolution,
What happens during evolution,
What does natural selection act on
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2.2.2 evolution: fitness
What is fitness an indication of,
What is fitness a measure of,
What does fitness refer to
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2.2.3 coevolution
What is meant by coevolution,
What can act as a selection press...,
When is co evolution frequently seen
9
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2.3.1 variation and sexual reproduction
What are the costs of sexual repr...,
How do benefits outweigh the cost...,
What does genetic variation provide
17
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2.3.2 meiosis
What is meiosis,
What do chromosomes typically app...,
What are homologous chromosomes
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2.3.3 sex determination
What is the sex of birds mammals ...,
What does the presence of sex chr...,
What determines the development o...
20
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2.4.1 sex and behaviour; parental investment
When is female investment high fo...,
When is female investment high fo...,
What is the con of parental inves...
13
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2.4.2 reproductive behaviours and mating systems in animals
What are mating systems based on,
What does monogamy mean,
What does polygamy mean
14
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2.4.1-2 parasitism - niche and lifecycle
What is an ecological niche,
What is a fundamental niche,
When is a realised niche occupied
25
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2.4.3 transmission and virulence
What is transmission,
What is virulence,
How are ectoparasites generally t...
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2.4.4 defence against parasitic attack
What aspects do the immune respon...,
What are examples of non specific...,
How do epithelial cells defend ag...
19
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2.4.5 immune evasion
How have parasites evolved,
How do endoparasites evade detection,
What does antigenic variation allow
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2.4.6 challenges in treatment and control
What is epidemiology,
What is the herd immunity threshold,
What do vaccines contain
12
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things i often forget
What is the name of the process t...,
What are the factors that affect ...,
Where are lipids synthesised
72
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things i fucked on the past papers x
Suggest one disadvantage of cell ...,
How can you minimise harm to anim...,
What is an advantage of an in viv...
33
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things i forget a lot
Describe what you must do when us...,
How does sds page work,
How do immunoassay techniques work
7
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things im getting wrong on quizlet tests
What is linked to an antibody and...,
What does isotonic mean,
What is responsible for producing...
13
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past paper questions
Explain how the action of protein...,
Explain the importance of a syste...,
Name the process where the bindin...
67
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more things im forgetting ill probably delete this deck later x
Why is substrate concentration ab...,
Name the type of proteins that ar...,
What are the fates of lipids that...
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10 marker questions
Discuss the role of amino acid r ...
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very last minute points to understand
Other than vital staining what is...,
What are the different forms of e...,
How can you separate proteins by ...
37
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