Art trippers, you missed the first episode of Cell – but don’t worry, you can get it from student access or see it here. All students, I expect you to watch the remaining episodes over the coming weeks, in your own time. Here is the work for this topic.

Cell Theory:

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Essential Biology 2.1: Cell Theory

And the wikipedia page

And C4B page

And the brilliant Amazing Cells resource from Learn.Genetics at Utah.

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Size of cells:

Learn.Genetics cell size

Practice calculations sheet: Calculations in Microscopy

Here’s a page of animations about techniques in microscopy

SA:Vol ratio from Wikipedia

And some cool animations to put things in perspective:

From Learn.Genetics at Utah (best one) or this one from Cells Alive.

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Cell Differentiation:

Wikipedia page

Cell differentiation video from Teachers Domain

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Virtual Electron Microscope - free and cool

Stem Cells:

NewScientist special reports on Stem Cells

Great Stem Cell videos from Eurostemcell.org (look at who they quote as a reviewer!)

Stem Cells cribsheet from SEED Magazine

Stem Cells transplants in lymphoma (animation)

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Electron Microscopy

Get the awesome free Virtual Electron Microscope, or send off some samples to be scanned for nowt, from here or here.