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Unit 1- Laboratory techniques for biologists Flashcards

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What is a hazard?

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A hazard is anything that poses a potential threat to individuals or environment.

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What is a risk?

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Risk is the likelihood of harm arising from exposure to a hazard.

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What reduces the risk of a hazard?

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A risk assessment

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What is a risk assessment?

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Involves identifying control measures to minimise risk.

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What are examples of control measures?

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  • Using appropriate handling techniques
  • Protective clothing and equipment
  • aseptic technique
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What is linear dilution?

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A series that differs by equal intervals for example, 0.1 0.2 0.3 etc

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What is a log/serial dilution?

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A series that differs by a constant proportion for example 10^-1, 10^-2, 10^-3

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What is a standard curve?

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Involves plotting measured values for known concentrations to produce a line or curve.

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What does a standard curve allow you to do?

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Determine unknown values.

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What does a pH buffer do?

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It controls pH and keeps it at constandt.

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What does a colorimetre measure?

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Quantify concentration and turbidity.

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What does measuring absorbance show?

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Allows you to determine the concentration of a coloured solution using suitable wavelength filtres.

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What does measuring percentage transmission show?

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Allows you to determine turbidity.

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What is an example of turbidity

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Cells in suspension.

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What does a centrifuge do?

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Separates substances of
differing density

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In a centrifuge where does more dense components settle?

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In the pellet

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In centrifuge where does less dense components settle?

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Supernatant.

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What does Paper and Thin layer chromatography do?

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It separates different substances such
as amino acids and sugars

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What determines the speed of the solute in Paper and Thin layer chromatography

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The speed that each solute travels along the
chromatogram depends on its differing
solubility in the solvent used

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What do affinity chromatography do?

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separate proteins.

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How does affinity chromatography work?

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  1. A solid matrix or gel column is created with
    specific molecules bound to the matrix or gel.
  2. Soluble, target proteins in a mixture, with a
    high affinity for these molecules, become
    attached to them as the mixture passes down
    the column.
  3. Other non-target molecules with
    a weaker affinity are washed out.
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What does gel electrophoresis separate?

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Proteins and nucleic acids

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What happens in gel electrophoresis?

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Charged macromolecules move through an
electric field applied to a gel matrix

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What do native gel separate?

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Proteins by their shape, size and charge.

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What happens with native gels?
Native gels do not denature the molecule so that separation is by shape, size and charge.
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What does SDS-PAGE separate?
Proteins by size alone.
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What happens in SDS-PAGE?
SDS–PAGE gives all the molecules an equally negative charge and denatures them, separating proteins by size alone
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What is an Iso-electric point (IEP)?
IEP is the pH at which a soluble protein has no net charge and will precipitate out of solution.
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What happens to the IEP is a solution is buffered?
If the solution is buffered to a specific pH, only the protein that have an IEP of that pH will precipitate
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How can proteins be separated using their IEP's?
Using Electrophoresis
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How can electrophoresis separate proteins using their IEP?
Soluble proteins can be separated using an electric field and a pH gradient. A protein stops migrating through the gel at its IEP in the pH gradient because it has no net charge.
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What is Immunoassay techniques used for?
To detect and identify specific proteins.
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What are used in Immunoassays?
use stocks of antibodies with the same specificity
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What are monoclonal antibodies?
stocks of antibodies with the same specificity
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What is a chemical label used for
linked to an antibody specific to the protein antigen
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What is another name for the label and what does it cause?
It is also known as a reporter enzyme producing a colour change.
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What are the two other types of chemical labels used?
Chemiluminescence and fluorescence.
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What is Western blotting?
Western blotting is a technique, used after SDS–PAGE electrophoresis
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what happens in western blotting after SDS-PAGE electrophoresis?
The separated proteins from the gel are transferred (blotted) onto a solid medium. The proteins can be identified using specific antibodies that have reporter enzymes attached
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What is Bright-field microscopy used for?
used to observe: - whole organisms, - parts of organisms, - thin sections of dissected tissue - individual cells
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What is fluorescence microscopy used for?
Uses specific fluorescent labels to bind to and visualise certain molecules or structures within cells or tissues
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What is aseptic technique?
Aseptic technique eliminates unwanted microbial contaminants when culturing microorganisms or cells.
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What does aseptic technique involve?
Aseptic technique involves the sterilisation of equipment and culture media by heat or chemical means and subsequent exclusion of microbial contaminants.
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How can a microbial culture be started?
A microbial culture can be started using an inoculum of microbial cells on an agar medium, or in a broth with suitable nutrients
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When culturing, what do animal cells grow in?
Animal cells are grown in medium containing growth factors from serum.
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What are growth factors?
Growth factors are proteins that promote cell growth and proliferation. Growth factors are essential for the culture of most animal cells.
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What are primary cell lines
primary cell lines can divide a limited number of times,
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What does plating out of liquid microbial culture on solid media allow?
allows the number of colony forming units to be counted and the density of cells in the culture estimated
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What is required to achieve a suitable colony count?
Serial dilution
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What does a haemocytometer do?
estimate cell numbers in a liquid culture
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What does vital staining do?
Vital staining is required to identify and count viable cells
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What are the examples of hazards?
- toxic or corrosive chemicals, - heat or flammable substances, - pathogenic organisms - mechanical equipment.

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