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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 | |