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Cells, microscopy and biological organisation
Canonical unit B01
- Cell structure: what each organelle is shaped for
The ultrastructure of eukaryotic cells: nucleus, nucleolus and nuclear envelope, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum,…
- Microscopy: magnification, resolution and what you can trust
The difference between magnification and resolution, how wavelength sets the resolving limit, light microscopes against …
- Prokaryotic cells and viruses: less machinery, same problems
The structure of a prokaryotic cell — murein wall, capsule, flagellum, plasmids, circular DNA and 70S ribosomes — compar…
- Specialisation: how one genome becomes two hundred kinds of cell
Differentiation and the control of gene expression in outline; totipotent, pluripotent and multipotent stem cells with t…
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