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The Search for Better Health Challenge Question 3 In this unit, you have developed a general understanding on genetic resistance in pathogens and how it helps in the spread of diseases. For example, drug resistance in bacteria - the development of superbugs. One of the mechanism behind...

The Search for Better Health Challenge Question 2 In your biology course, you have learned about the Koch's postulates to determine the causative organism of an infectious disease. For example, the identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a casative agent for the...

Question (Difficulty 10/10!) Do you think viruses are alive? Please explain your answer.

Hi everyone, I have posted new challenge questions in the Infinity & Beyond sub-forum. Please check them out! Survivor39 Moderator

Hi everyone. I will post a series of interesting questions which relates to and extend beyond the materials you have learned in the HSC Biology course. I hope all of you inspired biologists in the future, like me, will find this interest and think about how fansinating biological sciences can...

ange310. I think it's BOTH. You can't really have one and not the other. If you place a potato into highly concentrated salt water, water from the potato will move out, AND salt ions will diffuse into potato cells. The potato won't explode like you have suggested there.

The theme this week is "Number 1 Hits" Hmm, why isn't there "Inside Idol" this year?

Oh and to all those who likes to disect things (non-human dissection), do BIOS2061, where you dissect a shark. But then again, you will have Beal as one of your lecturers, so it's a bit of a trade off.

hahahaha. The rat smells 10 times worst than the toad. Personally, I enjoyed dissecting the rat better. But things are harder to find in the rat, especially the pancreas.

Yes it does. Although I have never done this course, I am assuming you are talking about solids that have a higher SA:V ratio will cool faster than solids with a lower SA:V ratio, right? Yes it is true.

I screwed up Immunology mid-session :( aarrgh. Physiology mid session is always difficult from what I've heard. But it gets better, particularly with the open book final exam....

Well done to all those who did well in the trial!

By the way, is this even in the HSC course? :D

Hmmm.. bacterial colonies are generally smaller. And fungal colonies usually just spread all over your agar plate anyway so you just know it is fungi! You will see a a swarm more so than a "colony", that is, you probably won't see a round small dot. For yeast, which is a type of fungi, you...

Thanks Nebuchanezzar. As to your question "does anyone at either of the uni's that i specified actually do one of the courses im looking into?" from mysterious00, many science students (from any schools or specicalisation) would have done biology in their first year, either as a core subject...

I can't really say why you should choose UNSW over ANU. To my knowledge, both are good unis. I think UNSW Science has more majors, and is a more diverse place. Microbiology and Immunology at UNSW is fantastic too.

I've heard Safety science is pretty bludgey, with mostly take-home final exams. But then again, to me, it's such a boring major I would find it difficult to learn and do well...

No.. don't do the numbering protocol. Your answer should be "An experiment was carried out using a patient's urine and was tested for..." You should not be using "we", or "I"

well, UNSW Biological Sciences encompass many things, like genetics, botany, animal physiology, environmental science, ocean biology, invertebrate biology and marine science. So you have a lot of choices in terms of fields of specialisation. The teaching is pretty good. The classes are generally...

There are some lab projects offered in the School of Biotech and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) for third year students. I am doing one now.