Thursday, 22 September 2011

Update - September 2011

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Hey guys, I'm taking a break while I start my degree but I've actually been encouraged into developing this into a proper website ...
Tuesday, 17 May 2011

BIO5 Notes are well on their way! :D

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I'm getting them all done at once, then there's gonna be a bit bulk upload. I'm going to change the tagging system tooo. At some...
Monday, 4 April 2011

Author's noteeee...

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So HI. Firstly, how did January go for everyone? I hope it went well. Went okay for me. B's all round in chemistry, averaging a B over...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

Recapping Control of Gene Expression. ^-^

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So, I have a mock test on all the genetics stuff this afternoon. Just going over stuff now. How are all of you guys going? Comment me and te...
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Small Interferring RNA. (SiRNA)

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Quick recap of oestrogen first - transcription stimulated by transcription factor, which has to bind to a specific region on the DNA. Can be...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Regulation of transcription and translation. OESTROGEN

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Oestrogen is lipid soluble, so it can diffuse through the phospholipid bilayer easily.  Oestrogen binds to the receptor molecule on a trans...

Totipotency and cell specialisation.

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What are Totipotent Cells? Totipotent cells are undifferentiated, non specialised cells. Initially, cells can become any type of cell (musc...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Cell Division

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The rate of cell division is controlled by two things: Proto-oncogenes :- stimulate cell division Tumour Supressor Genes :- slow cell div...

Gene Mutation.

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Mutation: Change in quantity or structure or DNA of an organism. Nonsense mutation: The mutation creates a stop codon. I.e. The mutation ...

Translation, Assmebling a polypeptide.

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Also, little note about splicing: the introns are removed because they would interfere with translation.  Translation: A ribosome attatche...