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List of boxes | |
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Preface | |
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Guided tour | |
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For the student | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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List of abbreviations | |
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Study and examination skills | |
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The importance of transferable skills | |
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Managing your time | |
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Working with others | |
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Taking notes from lectures and texts | |
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Learning and revising | |
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Curriculum options, assessments and exams | |
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Preparing your curriculum vitae | |
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Information technology and library resources | |
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Finding and citing published information | |
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Evaluating information | |
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Using online resources | |
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Bioinformatics - Internet resources | |
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Using spreadsheets | |
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Word processors, databases and other packages | |
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Communicating information | |
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Organising a poster display | |
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Giving a spoken presentation | |
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General aspects of scientific writing | |
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Writing essays | |
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Reporting practical and project work | |
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Writing literature surveys and reviews | |
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Fundamental laboratory techniques | |
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Your approach to practical work | |
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Health and safety | |
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Working with liquids | |
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Basic laboratory procedures | |
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Principles of solution chemistry | |
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pH and buffer solutions | |
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Introduction to microscopy | |
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Setting up and using a light microscope | |
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The investigative approach | |
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Making and recording measurements | |
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SI units and their use | |
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Scientific method and design of experiments | |
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Project workHandling cells and tissues | |
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Sterile technique and microbial culture | |
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Isolating, identifying and naming microbes | |
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Working with animal and plant tissues and cells | |
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Culture systems and growth measurement | |
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Homogenisation and fractionation of cells and tissues | |
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Analytical techniques | |
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Calibration and its application to quantitative analysis | |
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Immunological methods | |
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Radioactive isotopes and their uses | |
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Light measurement | |
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Basic spectroscopy | |
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Advanced spectroscopy and spectrometry | |
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Centrifugation | |
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Chromatography - separation methods | |
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Chromatography - detection and analysis | |
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Principles and practice of electrophoresis | |
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Advanced electrophoretic techniques | |
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Electroanalytical techniques | |
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Assaying biomolecules and studying metabolism | |
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Analysis of biomolecules: fundamental principles | |
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Assaying amino acids, peptides and proteins | |
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Assaying lipids | |
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Assaying carbohydrates | |
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Assaying nucleic acids and nucleotides | |
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Protein purification | |
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Enzyme studies | |
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Membrane transport processes | |
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Photosynthesis and respiration | |
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Genetics | |
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Mendelian genetics | |
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Bacterial and phage genetics | |
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Molecular genetics I - fundamental principles | |
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Molecular genetics II - PCR and related applications | |
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Molecular genetics III - genetic engineering techniques | |
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Analysis and presentation of data | |
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Using graphs | |
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Presenting data in tables | |
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Hints for solving numerical problems | |
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Descriptive statistics | |
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Choosing and using statistical tests | |
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Answers to study exercises | |
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Index | |