MSc in Molecular Medicine
Web address: www.sheffield.ac.uk/molmed
Short Quiz
Questions in the quiz are mainly of the minimum standard of knowledge that we expect from students at the start of the course. If you find the quiz difficult then please improve your knowledge before you arrive to take the course, as much of this knowledge will be assumed.
Quiz Questions (PDF, 130k)
You should be able to answer almost all of these questions after a little thought (without looking at the answers first!). If you can't answer a question, see if you can find the answer through studying a standard molecular biology textbook. Please see the section below for preliminary reading for the course.
The answers to the quiz are available from a link that we have hidden somewhere else in the course web pages of the MSc in Molecular Medicine.
Preparatory Reading
A recent edition of one of the following books. You don´t necessarily need the latest edition here as the basic information that you need will not have changed much in the last several years!
Alberts et al. "Molecular Biology of the Cell", which is currently in its fifth edition (2008) and is published by Garland Science (Tayor and Francis). ISBN 978-0-8153-4106-2
AND/OR
Lodish et al. "Molecular Cell Biology", which is currently in its sixth edition (2008) and is published by W.H. Freeman. ISBN: 0-7167-7601-4.
When you register, we will supply you with the more specific textbook (free of charge):
Strachan and Read. "Human Molecular Genetics", 4th Edition, published by Garland Science (Taylor and Francis). ISBN 978-0-8153-4149-9.