List of boxes
Preface
Guided tour
For the student
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Study and examination skills
1 The importance of transferable skills
2 Managing your time
3 Working with others
4 Taking notes from lectures and texts
5 Learning and revising
6 Curriculum options, assessments and exams
7 Preparing your curriculum vitae
Information technology and library resources
8 Finding and citing published information
9 Evaluating information
10 Using online resources
11 Bioinformatics - Internet resources
12 Using spreadsheets
13 Word processors, databases and other packages
Communicating information
14 Organising a poster display
15 Giving a spoken presentation
16 General aspects of scientific writing
17 Writing essays
18 Reporting practical and project work
19 Writing literature surveys and reviews
Fundamental laboratory techniques
20 Your approach to practical work
21 Health and safety
22 Working with liquids
23 Basic laboratory procedures
24 Principles of solution chemistry
25 pH and buffer solutions
26 Introduction to microscopy
27 Setting up and using a light microscope
The investigative approach
28 Making and recording measurements
29 SI units and their use
30 Scientific method and design of experiments
31 Project work
Handling cells and tissues
32 Sterile technique and microbial culture
33 Isolating, identifying and naming microbes
34 Working with animal and plant tissues and cells
35 Culture systems and growth measurement
36 Homogenisation and fractionation of cells and tissues
Analytical techniques
37 Calibration and its application to quantitative analysis
38 Immunological methods
39 Radioactive isotopes and their uses
40 Light measurement
41 Basic spectroscopy
42 Advanced spectroscopy and spectrometry
43 Centrifugation
44 Chromatography - separation methods
45 Chromatography - detection and analysis
46 Principles and practice of electrophoresis
47 Advanced electrophoretic techniques
48 Electroanalytical techniques
Assaying biomolecules and studying metabolism
49 Analysis of biomolecules: fundamental principles
50 Assaying amino acids, peptides and proteins
51 Assaying lipids
52 Assaying carbohydrates
53 Assaying nucleic acids and nucleotides
54 Protein purification
55 Enzyme studies
56 Membrane transport processes
57 Photosynthesis and respiration
Genetics
58 Mendelian genetics
59 Bacterial and phage genetics
60 Molecular genetics I - fundamental principles
61 Molecular genetics II - PCR and related applications
62 Molecular genetics III - genetic engineering techniques
Analysis and presentation of data
63 Using graphs
64 Presenting data in tables
65 Hints for solving numerical problems
66 Descriptive statistics
67 Choosing and using statistical tests
Answers to study exercises
Index