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Earth & cosmosGravitational cloud collapse and protostars

Cold dense regions of molecular clouds can contract gravitationally when support is insufficient.

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Earth & cosmosPlanetary material classes and interior inference

Terrestrial planets are dominated by rock and metal; giant planets contain larger proportions of light gases and volatile-rich material.

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Earth & cosmosComparative planetary atmospheres and energy balance

Atmospheric mass, composition and opacity affect a planet's surface conditions.

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Earth & cosmosAsteroid and comet material evidence

Asteroids include bodies with differing rocky, carbon-rich and metallic material signatures; meteorites and spacecraft observations test interpretations of their histories.

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Earth & cosmosGas phases of the interstellar medium

The interstellar medium contains ionized, atomic and molecular gas alongside dust.

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Earth & cosmosGalactic components and stellar populations

The Milky Way contains disk, bulge and halo components with differing distributions, motions and stellar populations.

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Earth & cosmosGalaxy morphology and physical populations

Spiral galaxies commonly contain a disk, bulge and spiral patterns with gas and ongoing star formation.

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Earth & cosmosGravitational lens geometry and image multiplicity

A thin gravitational lens relates a source's unlensed angular position to observed image positions through a mass-dependent deflection.

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Earth & cosmosCosmological redshift and expansion

In an FLRW expansion model, light emitted and observed by comoving observers is stretched by the ratio of their scale factors.

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Earth & cosmosEarly-universe nuclei and photon decoupling

The hot expanding universe passed through changing particle and radiation conditions.

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Earth & cosmosCosmic structure growth and dark-matter modelling

In the standard cosmological model, small density variations grow gravitationally and dark-matter structures help concentrate baryonic matter after photon coupling becomes less effective.

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Biology · Physics · ChemistryIon equilibrium potentials and membrane current balance

An ion's equilibrium potential balances its chemical and electrical driving terms.

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BiologyUbiquitin, proteasomes and lysosomal turnover

Eukaryotic protein abundance depends on synthesis and degradation.

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BiologyCaspases and mitochondrial/death-receptor apoptosis

In representative animal apoptosis pathways, activated initiator caspases promote an execution cascade that cleaves cellular targets.

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BiologyBase excision versus nucleotide excision repair

Base-excision repair begins when a glycosylase removes a recognized damaged base, leaving a site that is processed and restored by DNA synthesis and ligation.

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BiologyNonhomologous DNA end joining

End joining can restore continuity of a double-strand-broken DNA molecule without using a long homologous donor template.

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BiologySensory transduction and graded receptor potentials

Sensory receptors convert appropriate physical or chemical stimuli into changes in cellular electrical signalling.

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BiologyExperimental units and biological inference

The experimental unit is the entity independently assigned to a treatment in a specified design.

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BiologyNephron transport and the concentrating gradient

In the mammalian nephron model, selective tubular transport modifies filtered fluid.

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BiologyVasopressin and renal sodium-water control

Vasopressin released from the posterior pituitary can increase collecting-duct water permeability through aquaporin insertion.

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BiologyEndocrine axes and negative feedback

In the vertebrate thyroid-axis example, hypothalamic signals stimulate pituitary hormone release, which stimulates the thyroid.

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BiologyHormonal coordination of glucose storage and release

In the mammalian model, pancreatic insulin and glucagon coordinate nutrient use and storage with blood-glucose availability.

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BiologyRespiratory partial pressures and oxygen transport

Gases diffuse across respiratory surfaces down their own partial-pressure gradients.

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BiologyVentilation, pressure and alveolar surface tension

Mammalian ventilation moves air when respiratory-muscle action changes thoracic volume and pressure.

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BiologyMammalian cardiac conduction and blood flow

Coordinated electrical activation drives atrial and ventricular contractions.

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BiologyActin–myosin cycling and contraction control

Myosin interaction with actin converts ATP-dependent molecular cycling into force.

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BiologyNeural and hormonal coordination of digestion

In the vertebrate digestive example, signals coordinate secretion, motility and delivery of material between compartments.

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BiologyAntigen presentation and lymphocyte specificity

In jawed-vertebrate adaptive immunity, B-cell receptors recognize suitable antigen structures, while T-cell receptors recognize antigen presented with appropriate MHC molecules.

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BiologyOperons and integrated bacterial transcription control

In the E. coli lac example, a repressor and a cAMP-linked activator integrate lactose-related and glucose-related conditions to regulate transcription.

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BiologyPost-transcriptional RNA stability and silencing

RNA-binding proteins, RNA processing and degradation influence how long a transcript remains available for translation.

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Ion equilibrium potentials and membrane current balance

BiologyPhysicsChemistry

An ion's equilibrium potential balances its chemical and electrical driving terms.

Key knowledge

An ion's equilibrium potential balances its chemical and electrical driving terms. With multiple permeant ions, membrane voltage need not equal any one equilibrium potential. A conductance model separates ionic currents from capacitive charging.

Values and equations

Ei = (RT/ziF) ln(ci,out/ci,in); Ii = gi(Vm−Ei); Iapp = Cm dVm/dt + Σi Ii

Ei,Vm
ion equilibrium and membrane voltages V
R
gas constant J mol⁻¹ K⁻¹
T
temperature K
zi
ion signed charge number 1
F
Faraday constant C mol⁻¹
ci,out,ci,in
outside/inside ion concentrations same concentration units
gi
whole-cell ion conductance S
Ii,Iapp
outward ion current and inward applied current A
Cm
whole-cell capacitance F
t
time s

Conditions and scope

  • Voltage is inside minus outside; positive ionic current is outward.
  • The concentration form assumes ideal activity ratios. Linear conductance is a stated approximation; real channels can gate nonlinearly.
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  1. Equations for the Midterm, pp. 1–2: Nernst, capacitance and ionic conductanceWilliam Quinn and Troy Littleton — MIT, Cellular Neurobiology (2005 handout, hosted in 2012 course)Textbook chapter · PDFocw.mit.eduRead source

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Read Nernst ratio, current/capacitance and conductance equations; combined current conservation explicitly, without copying malformed Goldman parentheses or quantal-failure exponent.

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