General Thoughts: Biology (4 Viewers)

[carly.roder]

I actually thought today was rather hard!

The quarantine mc? I changed from quarantine to another one...
And F**** the kidney!

Genetics was rather easy though

What will scaling be?

 

[Gaston]

Updated answers to my knowledge of what is correct...

1. A or C
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. C

ha. the Board of Studies is a fan of mama mia

 

[Gaston]

umm i dont think you were supposed to write about eustachian and sound shadow but oh well.....at least its over now i can burn my bio notez.....yay!!!!.......=)

BURN THEM??? you burn something like maths notes.. Biology notes you sell to naive year 11s lol duh.

 

[ash_xx]

it was a pretty easy exam compared to past papers, i was flipping thru the paper during reading time expecting an uberly gay and random q but there was NONE!
pretty satisfied with tht exam, but then again in bio u nvr know how they mark it :S

 

[Scotty101]

anyone else do this?

pretty much.

 

[Bdogz]

Hey what did everyone do for that table the first part of the short responses, the distinguishing features of Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoan etc.?

I said Bacteria have DNA in plasmid - Tuberculosis
Fungi have a cell wall but no chloroplasts - Thrush
Protozoan is usually single celled and characterised by the way it moves - Malaria​

 

[sunsettah]

yeah i finished the exam in 90 minutes. didn't study. didn't know much. i know i got between 45% and 60%, if its 50 or higher i'll be happy.

i didnt put punctuated equilibrium.. for that rabbit one... i had .. um.. i cant remember i dont have the sheet. what were the other options?

 

[emilyo]

Hey what did everyone do for that table the first part of the short responses, the distinguishing features of Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoan etc.?​

I said Bacteria have DNA in plasmid - Tuberculosis
Fungi have a cell wall but no chloroplasts - Thrush

Protozoan is usually single celled and characterised by the way it moves - Malaria​

for bacteria you should have said no membrane bound organelles the rest looks fine

 

[sunsettah]

Hey what did everyone do for that table the first part of the short responses, the distinguishing features of Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoan etc.?​

I said Bacteria have DNA in plasmid - Tuberculosis
Fungi have a cell wall but no chloroplasts - Thrush

Protozoan is usually single celled and characterised by the way it moves - Malaria​

DAMN i thought thrush was bacterial imbalance?

i had tinea as fungi, protozoan as malaria, and thrush as bacteria

 

[snakesena]

what did everyone put for the question about the validity of that guys claim about if the pedigree was sex linked? I said it was sex linked. Someone said earlier on here that u can't have sex linked carried on y chromosome, but you can...its rare, but there are things? It surely can't have just been dominant/recessive, as EVERY SINGLE MALE had the disease. All of the male offspring of diseased males had the disease. Surely this means that it is carried on the y chromosome?

 

[juliafattore]

just wondering what people wrote for the communitcation question on action potential?

 

[annikab]

what did everyone put for the question about the validity of that guys claim about if the pedigree was sex linked? I said it was sex linked. Someone said earlier on here that u can't have sex linked carried on y chromosome, but you can...its rare, but there are things? It surely can't have just been dominant/recessive, as EVERY SINGLE MALE had the disease. All of the male offspring of diseased males had the disease. Surely this means that it is carried on the y chromosome?

The whole point of sex linkage is that the "disease" is more likely to be expressed in males than females because all it takes is one X chromosome with the defective gene

 

[Bdogz]

DAMN i thought thrush was bacterial imbalance?

i had tinea as fungi, protozoan as malaria, and thrush as bacteria

Thrush is an imbalance in microflora. It is a yeast - Candida albicans. Yeast is part of the fungal community if that is even a word lol

 

[snakesena]

...annika? lol this is stephen im annoyed now about that question, and i know i mucked up the kidney

 

[annikab]

HAHA! Hi stephen. Yeah, I wasn't so sure about that either, but my bullshitting skills came to good use. I managed to remember all the parts!

 

[sam5]

The whole point of sex linkage is that the "disease" is more likely to be expressed in males than females because all it takes is one X chromosome with the defective gene

so did u say its valid?

I said that it wasnt. He could have been right (only males had it) but i also said he could be wrong cos it could just have been a dominant disease, and it was just by chance that no females had the disease.

^ Communication question: an action potential of -50 mv needed to be reached.

 

[Lachycharts]

what did everyone put for the question about the validity of that guys claim about if the pedigree was sex linked? I said it was sex linked. Someone said earlier on here that u can't have sex linked carried on y chromosome, but you can...its rare, but there are things? It surely can't have just been dominant/recessive, as EVERY SINGLE MALE had the disease. All of the male offspring of diseased males had the disease. Surely this means that it is carried on the y chromosome?

It was a sex linked disease on the X (most likely, you never get a question about Y sex linked diseases). All the males were affected and had the genotype: X^cY - the reason why the sister didn't have it is because she has two X chromosomes which means that she is a carrier having the genotype: X^cX but she has a normal, non-faulty gene on the other X, hence why she didn't have it.

I said that it was most likely a sex linked and that the dude was right, but I said there wasn't enough family members, and hence evidence, to make a 100% justified conclusion.

 

[sunsettah]

at least u guys drew a kidney. i drew a loop of henley of however you spell it.

im one of those people that u look and and think to yourself 'im glad i have so much more motivation than her' lol

 

[snakesena]

Yeah, I wasn't so sure about that either, but my bullshitting skills came to good use. I managed to remember all the parts!

nice. i labelled medulla, cortex and ureter, and had like a magnified diagram of a nephron. i think i said the medulla was filtration, the cortex was made up of nephrons that did filtration/reabsorption, and the ureter was excretion..im sure its wrong

 

[annikab]

I said it was valid, because you could work out what each individual was assuming XnXc = carrier female, XnXn = normal female, XcY = affected male and XnY = unaffected male. You had to work backwards.