ah biology

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Decks in this class (60)

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
5  cards
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...
8  cards
1.1.3 separation techniques
What can centrifuges separate,
Where do the more dense component...,
Where do the less dense component...
17  cards
1.1.4 detecting proteins using antibodies
Which techniques are used to dete...,
What do immunoassay techniques us...,
What are monoclonal antibodies
7  cards
1.1.5 microscopy
What is bright field microscopy u...,
How doe fluorescence microscopy work
2  cards
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...
11  cards
1.2.1 proteins - the proteome
What is the proteome,
Is the proteome larger than the n...,
Is the proteome smaller than the ...
9  cards
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...
32  cards
1.2.3 protein structure, ligand binding, conformational change
What determines protein structure,
What are proteins,
What are amino acids linked with ...
54  cards
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...
23  cards
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
19  cards
1.4.1 communication and signalling; coordination
How do multicellular organisms si...,
What are some examples of extrace...,
What are receptor molecules of ta...
7  cards
1.4.2 hydrophobic signals and control of transcription
Where can hydrophobic signalling ...,
Where do hydrophobic signalling m...,
What are receptors for hydrophbic...
9  cards
1.4.3 hydrophilic signals and transduction
Do hydrophilic signalling molecul...,
What do hydrophilic signalling mo...,
What are examples of hydrophilic ...
20  cards
1.4.4 nerve impules transmission
What is meant by resting membrane...,
What does the transmission of a n...,
What is an action potential
19  cards
1.4.4.2 the vertebrate eye
What is the retina,
What are the two photoreceptor ce...,
What are rods
23  cards
1.5.1 the cytoskeleton and cell division
What does the cytoskeleton do,
What does the cytoskeleton consis...,
What are microtubules
8  cards
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
31  cards
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
12  cards
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  cards
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  cards
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
11  cards
3.3 sampling
When is a representative sample o...,
What determines sample size,
Do more variable populations requ...
8  cards
3.1.1 scientific method
What are the stages to the scient...,
In science refinement of ideas is,
Scientific knowledge can be thoug...
10  cards
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
6  cards
3.2 experimentation
What does validity mean,
What does reliability mean,
What does accuracy mean
4  cards
3.2.4 reliability
What can result in variation in e...,
How can the reliability of measui...,
What does the variation observed ...
10  cards
3.2.5 presentation of data
What do discrete and continuous v...,
What is qualitative data,
What is quantitative data
10  cards
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
7  cards
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  cards
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...
5  cards
3.3.4 evaluating results and conclusions
What should conclusions refer to,
What should be taken into account...,
Consideration should be given as ...
6  cards
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...
5  cards
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...
3  cards
2.1 health and safety
What can aspects of fieldwork pre...,
What are examples of hazards in f...,
What is a risk
5  cards
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...
8  cards
2.1.3 identification and taxonomy
How can identification of an orga...,
How can organisms be classified,
What does taxonomy involve
27  cards
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...
8  cards
2.1.5 measuring and recording animal behaviour
What are the different measuremen...,
What is latency,
What is frequency
8  cards
2.2.1 evolution: drift and selection
What is evolution,
What happens during evolution,
What does natural selection act on
34  cards
2.2.2 evolution: fitness
What is fitness an indication of,
What is fitness a measure of,
What does fitness refer to
9  cards
2.2.3 coevolution
What is meant by coevolution,
What can act as a selection press...,
When is co evolution frequently seen
9  cards
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  cards
2.3.2 meiosis
What is meiosis,
What do chromosomes typically app...,
What are homologous chromosomes
7  cards
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  cards
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  cards
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  cards
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  cards
2.4.3 transmission and virulence
What is transmission,
What is virulence,
How are ectoparasites generally t...
9  cards
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  cards
2.4.5 immune evasion
How have parasites evolved,
How do endoparasites evade detection,
What does antigenic variation allow
6  cards
2.4.6 challenges in treatment and control
What is epidemiology,
What is the herd immunity threshold,
What do vaccines contain
12  cards
things i often forget
What is the name of the process t...,
What are the factors that affect ...,
Where are lipids synthesised
72  cards
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  cards
things i forget a lot
Describe what you must do when us...,
How does sds page work,
How do immunoassay techniques work
7  cards
things im getting wrong on quizlet tests
What is linked to an antibody and...,
What does isotonic mean,
What is responsible for producing...
13  cards
past paper questions
Explain how the action of protein...,
Explain the importance of a syste...,
Name the process where the bindin...
67  cards
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...
35  cards
10 marker questions
Discuss the role of amino acid r ...
1  cards
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  cards

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