Cell biology
The cell as the shared unit underneath every organ this course covers.
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ReadThe plasma membrane and how things cross itWhy the membrane holds together at all, and the four ways a molecule can get through it.
5 min- ReadThe organelles and the secretory pathway
Follow one protein from its gene to the outside of the cell, and meet each organelle where it does its work.
6 min - ReadCytoskeleton, junctions and the matrix
What gives a cell its shape, what holds it to its neighbours, and what happens clinically when either fails.
5 min - ReadThe cell cycle, mitosis and cell death
How a cell copies itself, what stops it doing so at the wrong moment, and how it dies on purpose.
6 min - Memo cardsCell biology: memo cards
The whole of cell biology as a deck: prompt on the front, answer on the back.
4 min 
Multiple choiceCell biology: membrane and organellesTransport, the secretory pathway and what each organelle actually does.
5 min
Match pairsMatch the organellesPair each organelle with the job it does.
4 min- Multiple choiceCell biology: harder cases
Junctions, checkpoints, apoptosis and receptor mechanisms.
4 min 
Put in orderOrder the cellular sequencesRebuild the secretory pathway and the phases of mitosis in the order they happen.
5 min