Control questions
Microscopic technique
- What are the parts of a light microscope?
- What belong to optical, illumination and mechanical parts of a light microscope?
- What types of objectives do we have?
- What are the characteristic features of objectives?
- How do the characteristics of objectives change depending on magnification?
- What is the total magnification of light microscope?
- What is penetration ability of light microscope?
- What we need for phase contrast microscopy?
- Why do we use phase objective?
- How can we measure the size of microscopic object?
- What is the micrometric coefficient?
- Why do we use eyepiece and objective micrometer?
- How can we measure the thickness of microscopic object?
Native and permanent preparations
- What do we use for Panoptic staining (after Pappenheim) of blood smear?
- What is the difference between avian and mammalian erythrocyte?
- Which types of vacuoles is possible to observe in ciliates?
- How can we stain the food vacuoles?
Prokaryotes
- What is the size of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell?
- Why do we use Gramm-staining?
- What is the procedure of Gramm-staining?
- What are differences between G+ and G- bacteria?
Chemical composition of the cell
- What do we use for proof of starch?
- Why do we use Lugol solution?
- What is the shape of starch grain?
- What is amylase and what is its function?
- How can we proof amylase?
- What do we use for proof of lipids in cell?
- What types of inclusions are lipid vacuoles and starch grains?
- Why do we use Heller assay?
- What do we use for proof of proteins?
- What do we use for proof of DNA in nucleus?
Viruses and electron microscopy
- What belongs to non-cellular life?
- What is chemical composition of viruses, prions, viroids and virusoids?
- Name the example of viral and prions disease
- What is the size of viruses?
- What do you know about viral reproduction in host cell?
- What is the difference between lytic and lysogenic cycle?
- Describe gene expression in viruses depending on the type of nucleic acid?
- What types of electron microscopes do we have?
- What is the difference between light and electron microscope?
- What is the difference between transmission and scanning electron microscope?
- What is total magnification and resolution of electron microscope?
- What types of modification you must do before using electron microscope?
Eukaryotes
- What are the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell?
- What belongs to crystalline inclusions?
- What belongs to pigment inclusions?
- What are differences between raphids, styloids and druses?
- What is anthocyanine and what is its function?
- How is changed color of anthocyanines in berries according to pH?
- What is the shape of nuclei of leucocytes?
- What types and number of nuclei are typical for Paramecium?
- What type of staining is used for Golgi aparatus and mitochondrion provement?
- Where in the cell are mitochondria localized?
Cell cultures
- How and under what conditions are cells cultivated in vitro?
- What are differences between adherent and suspension cells?
- How do we passage the cells in vitro?
- What are the phases of growth curve of a tissue culture?
- What microscope is used for observation of cell cultures?
Animal experiments
- What legislation is used for animal protection?
- What is the difference between breeding, supplying and user establishments?
- How must be equipped user establishments?
- What is the difference between germ-free, gnotobiotic, SPF and conventional animals?
- Who can perform experiments on animals?
- What is an integral part of the experiment?
- What are the reasons for experiments?
- What are "3Rs" principles for the use of animals in experiments?
- What documentation should be kept during animal experiments?
Transport of substances, osmosis
- What is osmosis?
- What are the types of solutions important for osmosis?
- What happens with the cell in hypotonic, isotonic and hypertonic environment (what is the difference between plant and animal cell)?
- What is plasmolysis, plasmoptysis, plasmorhisis and turgor?
- What is haemolysis?
- How looks haemolysis macroscopically and microscopically?
- What types of transport of substances through the membrane do you know?
- What is the difference between endocytosis, exocytosis, pinocytosis and phagocytosis?
- How can we calculate phagocytic activity?
Cell growth and reproduction
- What are the phases of the cell cycle and what happens in each phases?
- What are the phases of the mitosis and what happens in each phases?
- What is the difference in cytokinesis of plant and animal cells?
- What types of mitotic disorders do we have?
- How can we calculate mitotic index?
- What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?
- What are the phases of the meiosis?
- What is the course of spermiogenesis and its phases?
- What is the course of oogenesis and its phases?
- What is difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?
- What is difference between perfect and imperfect metamorphosis?
- What is difference between ontogenesis and phylogenesis?
- What is apomixis?
- How to recognize microscopically phases of estral cycle?
Movement and irritation
- What types of movement do we have?
- What cytoskeletal fiber and molecular motor is involved in various types of movements?
- What do you know about muscle contraction?
- What is chemotaxis and oxygenotaxis?
Infuence of surroundings onto bioplasm
- What kind of stress do we have?
- What might be effect of the stress?
- What is photodynamy and oligodynamy?
- What is photodynamic colour and its effect?
- What is phytoncide and its effect?
- What is the effect of ionizing radiation on the rat testis?
Cytogenetics
- What is the chemical composition of chromosome?
- What types of chromosomes according to centromere position do we have?
- What is the number of chromosomes in somatic and sex cell?
- What is sex determination system?
- What is sex chromatin?
- What is polytene chromosome?
- What are the karyotypes of domestic animals?
- What is cell cycle of Drosophila melanogaster?
- What mutations are typical for Drosophila melanogaster?
Genetics
- Can you explain terms gene, genome, genotype and phenotype?
- What is difference between trait and phenotype?
- Can you explain terms homozygote, heterozygote and hemizygote?
- What is difference between complete, incomplete dominance and codominance?
- What does belong to Mendelian inheritance?
- Can you name Mendel's principles and conditions to hold these principles true?
- Why do we use ?2 test?
- What belongs to gene interactions?
- What is true for each gene interactions and what are the ratios in the F2 generation?
- What is difference between sex-linked, sex-limited, sex-influenced and sex-controlled inheritance?
- What is difference between complete and incomplete sex-linked traits?
- What are Morgan's principles?
- What is difference between complete and incomplete linkage?
- What is Bateson and Morgan number?
- What is three-point cross and its function?
- What is Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and the conditions under which this equilibrium applies?
- What is panmictic population?
- Can you name examples of qualitative and quantitative trait?
- Can you graphically express qualitative and quantitative trait?
- What is heritability, its formula and examples?
- What is correlation and formula for correlation coefficient?
- What is difference between positive and negative correlation?
- What belongs to non-mendelian inheritance?
- What is maternal inheritance (examples)?
- What is maternal effect (examples)?
Blood groups, polymorphic genes
- What does it mean polymorphic genes? Use concrete examples.
- What method is used for determination of blood groups in human?
- What is the principle of agglutination reaction?
- What blood groups exist in human? What genotypes correspond to these blood groups?
- What blood groups exist in cats? What genotypes correspond to these blood groups?
Drawing
- ciliate with vacuoles
- starch grain
- avian and mammal erytrocytes
- G+ and G- bacteria
- bacteriophage
- nucleus, ER, GA
- mitochondria, chloroplast
- DNA, tRNA
- druses, raphids, styloids
- neuron
- types of leucocyte nuclei
- membrane (model of fluid mosaic)
- Na/K pump, Ca2+ pump, H+pump
- mitotic spindle
- phases of mitosis as observed in microscope
- scheme of mitosis and meiosis
- scheme of spermiogenesis and oogenesis
- cross section of flegalla and cillia (structure 9+2)
- centrosome
- sarcomere
- phylogenetic tree
- formula of amino acid
- replication fork
- transcription, translation, ribosome
- formula of photosynthesis and cell respiration
- chemiosmotic coupling in mitochondria and chloroplasts
- ratios in gene interactions
- genetic linkage - cis and trans phase, complete and incomplete linkage
- maternal effect
- HW equilibrum - formula
- Heritability- formula