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Biological Bad Ass

// March 10th, 2006 // Geekery

In my new part-time uni, full-time work schedule, Thursday is the day I spend 9-5 up at university. Did this for the first time yesterday and it was great! I so wish I could afford to be a full time student. Ah well, I can dream.

Anyway! Cell biology has been kind of average so far with much discussion of microscopes, staining, best scientific practice etc. But yesterday we got stuck into some actual cell stuff, and it was so confusing and overwhelming! Here are some of the terms I heard yesterday that I had NO IDEA what they meant:

plasmid

fimbriae

basement membrane

belt desmosomes

cytosol

vacuolar system

golgi complex

endoplasmic reticulum

I think it’s time to ramp up the reading and get out that Dictionary of Biology…

Then we had a biology lab where we looked at the following cells under the microscope:

human brain tumour cells

another sort of human brain tumour cells

human cervical cells with papiloma virus

human blood cells with leukaemia

mouse intestinal cells

Ew.