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Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...codes for the amino acid alanine. GAG → GAACorrect. Both GAG and GAA are codons for glutamic acid. Therefore, substitution of G by A will still produce a functional Hb protein. GAG → CAGIncorrect. Substitution of G by C will produce the codon CAG which codes for the amino acid glutamine. a. GAG → GCG b. GAG → GAA c. GAG → CAG The correct answer is b. b. Correct....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...simple: the supermarket exists to sell goods – principally food, groceries and clothes – to its customers, who are ordinary people buying basic goods for themselves and their families. Tesco will be judged on its success in terms of its volume of sales and what this represents in terms of profit. By taking a very different example, such as a hospital, then you can see...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...simple and neutral. The nature of the question can influence the outcome. Matt Qvortrup, professor of applied political science at Coventry University, says that long questions can cause voters to become mistrustful. He also says that the nature and timing of the campaign is likely to be more significant than the wording of the question. A short, positive campaign held...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...code human and divine’. It would only be natural that an author reading such reviews of their work would feel disheartened, and Charlotte Brontë wrote to her publisher on 17 November 1847, ‘The Spectator seemed to have found more harm than good in Jane Eyre, and I acknowledge that distressed me a little’ (UK RED: 28479). But for the most part, Brontë accepted the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...codes of society and human desire to push against them, self-consciously and sometimes subversively. To access these operations Greenblatt is interested in those aspects of culture that don’t fall neatly into place. Texts and images are marked not by coherence and unity but, as he writes elsewhere, by ‘fields of force, places of dissension and shifting interests,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...simple. Clutterbuck (2008) highlights the features that they seem to have in common; both: require, and draw upon, the helper’s experience involve giving advice in some form coaching and mentoring are based on goals set by, or for, the learner methods deal with significant transitions the learner wishes to make deal with personal growth ambitions. However, there are key...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...codes, values and norms that govern scientific practice...’ (Chapter 1, page 19) and Merton's ‘CUDOS norms of Communalism, Universality, Disinterestedness, Originality and Scepticism’ (Chapter 4, p. 48). These ‘norms’ – by which we mean the types of informal social rules that are learnt and enacted, as people practice science professionally – are examined in...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...simple decimal system based on the number 10. One way to do this is by imagining a clock and saying, ‘From 9:35 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. is 25 minutes; 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. is an hour and 11:00 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. is an extra ten minutes. So the journey time is 1 hour and 35 minutes, assuming the train runs on time.’ Now you have one more step. To find out how much you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs