Q. Sucrose is a way of testing for glycemia.

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Q. Small molecule sensors are an effective way to detect the presence of fungal cells.

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Q. Impedance spectroscopy measures the resistance and capacitance properties of material via application of a ______________ air conditioning excitation signal of c. 2–10 mV.

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Q. _________ spectroscopy is based on the interaction of an external field with the electric dipole moment of the sample, often expressed by the permittivity.

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Q. Atomic polarization is observed when the nucleus of the atom reorients in response to the electric field.

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Q. ______________ relaxation as a whole is the result of the movement of dipoles (dipole relaxation) and electric charges (ionic relaxation) due to an applied alternating field.

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Q. Debye relaxation is the dielectric relaxation response of an ideal, non-interacting population of dipoles to an alternating external electric field.

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Q. _______________ relaxation comprises ionic conductivity and interfacial and space charge relaxation.

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Q. __________ is the ability of many materials (specifically ceramics) to become polarized under an applied electric field.

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Q. A dielectric resonator oscillator (DRO) is an electronic component that exhibits resonance of the polarization response for a narrow range of frequencies, generally in the microwave band.

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Q. ________________ biosensors are a class of electrochemical biosensors that transduce the biological recognition events caused by electroactive species at the sensing surface into a current signal for the quantification of an analyte within a sample matrix.

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Q. _________ refers to the measurement of the charge of electroactive species adsorbed on to an electrode with respect to time.

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Q. The type of biosensors that make use of electrodes that are ion-selective in nature in order to transduce the biological response into an electrical signal is known as _______ biosensors.

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Q. The conventional electrochemical cell contains three separate electrodes.

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Q. In __________ information about an analyte is obtained by measuring the current as the potential is varied.

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Q. __________ transducers are the most comprehensive and mostly used by research groups in biosensing analysis.

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Q. Which biosensor’s principle has been represented in following diagram?

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