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Here you will find a LABORATORY MANUAL on BIOCHEMISTRY. The given manual is designed according to the curriculum on biochemistry for the students of the Faculty of Overseas Admissions (general medicine and dentistry specialities). It is intended to save the student’s time and optimize their practical work. In this book you will find protocols and thus you can perform these …
Below you will find a good manual for Mathematics Exercises in Biotechnology. Sample exercises and brief introduction will help you solve various mathematical problems in biology quickly and with less mistakes. Take a look! https://cdn.ymaws.com/amatyc.org/resource/resmgr/publications/biotechmaterials.pdf
Recently, tasks asking for floral formulas and diagrams appear more often in olympiads. Below you will find some notes on flowers: http://faculty.etsu.edu/liuc/Lecture%2024.%20Flower-contd.pdf Here you will find digital flower website. All you need to know about flowers and inflorescences: https://uqu.edu.sa/files2/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/4290002/Lecture%208.pdf.
Gene mapping is a common topic in the biology olympiad. A genetic map is simply a representation of the distribution of a set of loci within the genome. So using the handouts below, learn the basics of gene mapping. http://www.informatics.jax.org/silver/chapters/7-1.shtml http://www.mreroh.com/student/APbiodocs/Unit%205%20-%20Division%20and%20Genetics/Special/linkage%20gene-mapping.pdf
As you remember, population genetics is the study of genetic variation within populations. Below are some good handouts which will help you learn more about allele changes over time at the population level: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/vgec/schoolscolleges/topics/population-genetics www.life.illinois.edu/ib/201/lectures/PopGen.pdf www.csun.edu/~dgray/Evol322/Chapter6.pdf
Evolutionary relationships are pretty important in biology and thus constructing phylogenetic trees is becoming a part of practical exam in almost every biology olympiad. Below you will find some slideshows about UPGMA. UPGMA is a distance method and therefore needs a distance matrix. UPGMA is “ultrametric”, meaning that all the terminal nodes (i.e. the sequences/taxa) are equally distance from the …
It’s just the right time to start discovering population genetics and understanding basic concepts of the Hardy-Weinberg law. Population genetics helps us to describe how the frequency of the alleles change over time. To study frequency changes, we analyze the entire population, not just individual organisms. You can learn more about population genetics here: http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/popgen/popgen3.htm. Some good notes are here: …
For molecular biology, check out The Beginner’s Guide to Molecular Biology HERE. The topics range from The Cell to Biotechnology to Genetics. Also you can buy the book called Molecular Biology and Applied Genetics.
A gene interaction is an interplay between many genes that can influence the expression of the phenotype. Below you will find some useful handouts on different gene interactions: www.austincc.edu/asession/biol2316/CH13d2notes&HW.pdf www.tnau.ac.in/eagri/eagri50/GBPR111/lec03.pdf www-personal.une.edu.au/~jvanderw/gene251-351-lec3.pdf www.clfs.umd.edu/classroom/bsci410-liu/BSCI410-S09/Lecture5.pdf Image source: https://www.freepik.com/vectors/pharmaceutical-industry Pharmaceutical industry vector created by macrovector
This is a second part about gene linkage: www.mun.ca/biology/dinnes/B2250/exercise7.pdf Some solved problems can be found in the slideshow: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011/genetics/linkage-and-recombination-genetic-maps/MIT7_01SCF11_3.2sol1.pdf. Genetic engineering vector created by pch.vector – www.freepik.com
If you are tired of reading a pile of biology textbooks, I suggest you taking a break and trying alternative ways of learning. I just found amazing records of Raven Biology HERE that allow you to study anytime whether you are driving to work, exercising at the gym, or walking to class. Students with portable media players (iPod® and …
Sometimes in olympiads you can confront with tricky polygenic inheritance problems. As I noticed, all you need to know in order to successfully solve polygenic inheritance problems is to be acquainted with probabilities and understand Pascal’s triangle shown below. Then, I share a compiled pdf with some theory and problems concerning polygenic inheritance: http://depts.washington.edu/genetics/courses/genet371b-aut00/public_html/problems/371B_practice_10.html Also, some good exercises can be …
Bellow you will find short biochemistry problems set. www2.fiu.edu/~bch3033/probsolns/Ch01.doc. Image source: Laboratory microscope vector created by freepik – www.freepik.com
Below you will find a file with the concepts of descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics are numbers that are used to sum up and describe data. A useful tutorial for the biology olympiad can be found here: http://onlinestatbook.com/2/introduction/descriptive.html.
Below you can find a great deal of diverse genetics problems with answers. Try to solve as many as you can and do not give up if something does not turn out right. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/41377584/GENETICS-PROBLEMS-WITH-ANSWERS. Image source: https://www.freepik.com/vectors/chromosome vector created by rawpixel.com.
As I mentioned in previous post about tips and tricks, I promised to post some good websites to find biological mnemonics. Here is a list: Try this Some are here Very useful ones can be found here Also here There are more interesting pages, however, I would suggest to search having a topic in mind for example glycolysis enzymes mnemonic …
Just found an amazing textbook of genetics SCHAUM’S OUTLINE OF THEORY AND PROBLEMS of GENETICS Third edition which contains both theoretical material and most important practical problems. Buy it on Amazon or Book Depository. Image source: Mutation vector created by vectorjuice – www.freepik.com
Here you will find some good stuff about gene linkage and genetic mapping. Take a careful look at how genetic maps are made as well as practice genetics problems at the end. A very useful tutorial of genetic linkage and mapping here: Below you will find practice problems with answers More practice will never do you bad: As …
Today it’s time to learn about bacterial counts. Amazing tutorial can be found here and I compiled that information into a slide show: You can also find an amazing tutorial here. Below you find lab report from microbiology laboratory. Another one is beneath, too: One slideshow: Finally, a good slideshow should consolidate your knowledge: Big thanks to http://www2.fiu.edu/~makemson/Growth.pdf, http://www2.fiu.edu/~makemson/Growth.pdf and …