UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN CENTRE FOR FOUNDATION STUDIES FOUNDATION IN SCIENCE MAY 2015 FHSC1214 FUNDAMENTALS OF CELL BIOLOGY TUTORIAL 1 BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES I Student’s Guide for Tutorial: At university level, the tutor facilitates student learning without spoon-feeding. Therefore, you are expected to: * Read your textbook, attempt the questions before the tutorial * You may enter the class and sign your attendance after showing your tutor that all tutorial questions
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WALL-E Approximately seven hundred years in the future, the Earth is over-run with garbage and devoid of plant and animal life, the consequence of years of environmental degradation and thoughtless consumerism. The surviving humans are living on the spaceship Axiom after vacating Earth centuries earlier. Axiom is operated by a large corporation called Buy N Large, whose BnL logo appears even on the artificial sun visible from the ship's main concourse. The original plan was for humans to live
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which is exceeding 500mm thick. | * The designed concrete is grade C25, * Cement to BS12, * 20mm aggregate to BS882, * Minimum cement contact 120kg/m3 | Red line indicates the contour line. Blue line indicates the area of retaining wall. Yellow indicates the area to be fill. Green indicates the area to be cut. Cutting Point | Ground level | Depth of cut (x) | weighting (y) | xy | 4B | 99.80 | 0.150 | 1 | 0.150 | 5B | 100.38 | 0.380 | 2 | 0.760 | 5C | 100.48 | 0.480 |
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Change in Potato Cells Due to the Effects of Osmosis (AYE YO POTATO! HOW MUCH OSMOLARITY YOU GOT?) Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to determine the osmolarity of a potato. Osmolarity is defined as the solute concentration expressed as molarity. Lerner and Lerner (2008) define osmosis as the movement of water across a membrane that is selectively permeable. Osmosis is important in plant cells because it plays a role in regulating guard cells, which are cells that are on the surface of a plant’s
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descriptive memoir written from the perspective of Jeannette Walls. As she eventually finds success as a writer, Jeanette recounts her dreadful childhood she faces raised by eccentric and egotistical parents. Rex and Mary, her parents, are very non-functional because of their drinking habits. Mom and Dad are very energetic people who push their kids, learing how to nurture themselves by feeding, clothing, and protecting one another. Jeannette Walls applies the lesson of self-discipline from her childhood
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The Glass Castle, the title of the book, was also the symbol of Rex Walls’s hope of happiness of his family, which was imaginary and unrealistic. Throughout the book, Walls promised Jeannette to build the luxurious Glass Castle with the glass ceiling and enough rooms for all the family members; and even in bad situations, the Walls Family believed the Glass Castle as the final hope to get out of the poor condition. The Glass Castle was significant for the father, because it represented his children’s
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I am currently reading The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls. I believe that the author chose this title because it had some sort of significance to her. This reason could be something simple to see, or something much deeper. When the author was young, her father said that he would build the family a castle made of glass. “When dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about all wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle.” (pg
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characters and their struggles to their own by the end of the book, they should realize that it is up to them to change their future. The audience should not wait for a miracle like every character did, but instead take matters in their own hands like the Walls children and look for a way to solve their
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Throughout the novel, The Glass Castle, we see many aspects of Mrs. Walls’s personality through her actions and her speech. Jeannette Walls - the second daughter of Rex and Rose Walls and the author of this memoir - recalled how her mother was artistic - in her own way - how she encouraged learning by experience instead of discipline, how she believed in independence from a young age, and how she believed in her own way of thinking, rather than the thinking of the professionals. We start seeing parts
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and animal cells 1. Both plant and animal cells have a nucleus. 2. Both plant and animal cells have ribosomes, mitochondria, and a Golgi apparatus. List two differences between plant and animal cells 1. Animal cells do not have a cell wall or chloroplasts, but plant cells do. 2. Plant cells have one large central vacuole while animal cells have one or more small vacuoles. Part 2 – Diffusion and Osmosis Diffusion [4 pts] Boiling water (Right Side) | Cold water
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