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Suggest why DNA is a more suitable long-term storage molecule for genetic information than RNA.
DNA and RNA have similar, but not identical, molecular structures. It is these structural differences that enable DNA to be a more suitable long-term storage molecule than RNA. Firstly, the pentose sugar in ...
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What do I say if asked, 'what is culture'?
There's no easy answer to this, and don't be afraid to say so. Address the fact that there is no set definition and that its ambiguity is precisely what Anthropologists and Archaeologists set out study. Havi...
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Why do you want to go to Cambridge?
Put yourself in the interviewers shoes. They have a limited number of spaces, so they are trying to pick a candidate that can firstly put up with the workload of Cambridge, but after they have cleared the be...
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How do neurons know when to fire?
This is actually an interview style question and a good question to get the candidate to work through themselves from their A level biology knowledge - getting them to practice vocally working things out fro...
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Give an example of convergent evolution and suggest why it has occurred.
This is an example of a question a Biological Sciences candidate could expect at an Oxford interview. The interviewer might start by asking for a definition of convergent evolution ("convergent evolutio...
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