Extended Matching Questions (EMQs)

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Note: The particular chapters that will need to have been read are stated next to each title. Unless otherwise stated, only the main text and the figures need to be read to answer these questions – knowledge of boxed material is not essential (but may help).

  1. Microscopy
    (Chapters 1, 7)
  2. Structures formed from biological molecules
    (Chapters 3, 6, 8, 10, 12)
  3. Eukaryotic transcription factors
    (Chapters 6, 10, 15, 16)
  4. Binding partners of DNA and RNA
    (Chapters 5, 6, 8)
  5. GTPases
    (Chapters 8, 10, 15)
  6. Phosphorylation of small molecules and proteins
    (Chapters 10, 13, 15, 18)
  7. The locations where energy production occurs
    (Chapters 3, 12, 13)
  8. The subcellular location of channels and carriers
    (Chapters 3, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19)
  9. The concept of the electrochemical gradient
    (Chapter 14)
  10. Contact inhibition
    (Chapter 18)
  11. Initiation of an immune response
    (Chapters 8, 16, 19)
  12. Cell: cell interactions in the immune system
    (Chapter 19)
  13. The cytoskeleton in interphase and dividing cells
    (Chapters 18, 19)
  14. The roles of specific proteins
    (Chapters 5, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19)