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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?
 

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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.
 

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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
 

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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​
 

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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?
 

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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
 

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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 :(
 

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

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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
 

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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
 

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

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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!
 

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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.
 

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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: XcY - 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: XcX 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.
 

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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
 

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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 :p
 

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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.
 

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