Biologists! How was it?

[enwiabe]

Let's get this discussion rolling. Feel free to create your own new topics on this!

[KeyMan]

Totally stuffed up my exam. Had a mental blank for the electron transport system question and the hormone description.

I'll be expecting a C.... -_-

Hrmm... couldn't answer the fibrous protein question either. I didn't learn about that or i wasn't paying attention in class.

[username]

I messed up the 'chemical composition' question - I wrote protein and lipid but I assume it was Carbon, hydrogen etc.

Keyman: For fibrous I wrote collagen, not sure if that's right though.

Oh and for the whole 'subunit' for polypeptides I stupidly wrote protein.

My antibody drawing looked so crap hahaha.

[KeyMan]

Mmm... I wrote monomer for subunit... but i think it was amino acids... not sure and I'm to scared to check lol

[username]

Unfortunately it WAS amino acids.

Let's be disappointed together.

[KeyMan]

Hahaha, damn it

Hrmm now I remember the antigen question.... I wrote macrophages as the first cells to detect it....

[username]

Whuh?

Oh I wrote MHC marker cells. :\ Crap now my heart is racing like crazy.

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[JL_91]

Oh god..I stuffed up that antigen question, I had to guess it. I think I wrote Th cells lol. And I left the final part of the 1st short answer (something about a feature of a fibrous protein and how the arrangement of chains gives that feature) blank because I forgot absolutely everything I learned about that! It was only 1 mark so I suppose it's not the end of the world for me lol :S ...I put collagen for a fibrous protein, and said that its key function is that it gives strength and elasticity to skin. My friend and I came out freaking about our hormone definitions...ours were basically identical to the one they gave on the paper! My biology teacher said the paper was very easy, so they're going to mark it hard. I was actually expecting a hard paper, but even last year's was marginally harder than this one.  

[username]

I thought last year's paper was EASIER than this one.

[JL_91]

I thought last year's paper was EASIER than this one.

Last year's questions were generally harder and more 'analytical' than this year's...but the shit thing about this year's was that they asked a number of straightforward questions about fairly unexpected topics, if that makes sense. I'm just so, so glad it's all over now!

[KeyMan]

I thought last year's paper was EASIER than this one.

Last year's questions were generally harder and more 'analytical' than this year's...but the shit thing about this year's was that they asked a number of straightforward questions about fairly unexpected topics, if that makes sense. I'm just so, so glad it's all over now!

Haha yeh, I was spending all my time studying the more difficult things such as photosynthesis, aerobic respiration and different plant hormones, but most of the questions were more of the easier stuff that I didn't spend too much time on.

[username]

Any of you guys have other exams tomorrow?

Psych and chem for meeee.

[KeyMan]

Psych tomorrow and then the GAT for Friday. I finally feel relieved, all the stress that has been building up was for Bio, now that it's over I can relax. Psych is much easier for me in comparison to Bio.

[Survivor]

For the Tasmanian devil one, what was the answer to the question: "Why were the tumour cells recognised as self cells?" or something along the lines of that? Was it because it was a deep wound and the cells surpassed the first and second lines or defense? I had no idea.

Oh, and I have chem tomorrow which, for me, is 10 times worse than Bio unfortunately

[username]

Survivor - I said the tumor was recognised as self cells because it had the same MHC surface markers as the organism's other cells....