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1.1 - What is life?
What characterises living organis...,
Name the molecular characteristic...,
Name the 2 theories for the origi...
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1.2 - Domains of life
What s the evidence supporting th...,
What is 16s ribosomal rna used fo...,
What are the 3 major organisms
8
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1.3 - Phylogeny
What is the function and importan...,
Describe homologous analogous traits,
What is a clade
6
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1.4 - Animal bodies
What are the common characteristi...,
Describe metazoans 2,
Describe ediacaran ecology 4
23
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1.5 - Evolutionary choices: sex + life histories
Why do females invest more in rep...,
What are the costs of sex 4,
Benefits of sex 3
34
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1.6 - Populations, epidemics and natural selection
What were the parameters used to ...,
What are the 2 models for disease...,
Describe the sir model for diseas...
21
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1.7 - Living with others: Mate choice and sociability
Name a species where sexual fitne...,
How does sexual fitness differ be...,
Describe sexual selection
24
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2.1 - Generation of genetic diversity
What is a mutation,
How do mutations arise during dna...,
How is error rate reduced in dna ...
26
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2.2 - inheritance & mendelian genetics
Dominant alleles,
Alleles,
Recessive allele
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2.3 - Meiosis and Linkage
Why is chromosome segregation req...,
What does meiosis involve 2,
What are the 3 stages of meiosis 3
26
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2.4 - Population Genetics
Darwin s theory of natural select...,
A allele and a allele frequency e...,
Hardy weinberg assumptions 5
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2.5 - Human genetics
Aneuploidy,
Human syndromes caused by aneuplo...,
Effects of klinefelter syndrome 5
26
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3.1 - The chemistry of life
How is energy for many cellular r...,
How are covalent bonds made broken,
When is bond rotation not possibl...
38
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3.2 - Protein structure and function
What does a proteins sequence alw...,
N terminus 2,
C terminus
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3.3 - nucleic acids
The central dogma,
Each nucleotide contains 3,
2 types of nucleotide base 2
27
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3.4 - DNA to protein
Transcription,
In which direction does rna synth...,
Difference between dna replicatio...
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3.5 - Control of gene expression
What does it mean when a gene is ...,
When do genes expressed and prote...,
Housekeeping genes
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3.6 - Molecular biology toolkit
Recombinant,
Restriction enzymes,
How do restriction enzymes recogn...
29
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4.1 - The microbial world
Microbiology,
3 habitats that support majority ...,
Microbe benefits 5
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4.2 - The eukaryotic cell
Bacterium cell 4,
Animal cell 4,
Plant cell 4
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4.3 - The cytoskeleton
Importance of cytoskeleton in euk...,
3 major components of the cytoske...,
Intermediate filaments 3
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4.4 - Cell communities/connections
Role of extracellular matrix on s...,
What does the extracellular matri...,
2 main polysaccharide components ...
37
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4.5 - Cell division and growth
3 prokaryotic asexual reproductio...,
Fragmentation,
Type of gene transfer in binary f...
23
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4.6 - Mitochondria and respiration
Role of mitochondria 2,
Endosymbiotic mitochondria origin...,
Oxygen 2
37
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4.9 - The Nervous System
Neuroglia glial cells 3,
Types of glial cells 6,
Role of astrocyte astroglia
29
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4.10 - Evolution of nervous system
Caenorhabditis elegans 2,
Lymnaea stagnalis 2,
Ventral notochord 2
8
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