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Archived Discussion => Mathematics/Science/Technology => 2015 Exam Discussion => Biology => Topic started by: The Peasant on October 30, 2015, 11:58:28 am
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So...how did everyone go?
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Was the last question multi regional or out of Africa?
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Was the last question multi regional or out of Africa?
If its not out of africa I will cry
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If its not out of africa I will cry
Omg no I did multi regional
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Was the last question multi regional or out of Africa?
That question fuqed me up. Don't even know which one it is. Anyone else?
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Omg no I did multi regional
Dw I couldnt remember the other so I put out of africa. Its probably multi regional now that I think about it ._.
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Anyone else feel like some of the multiple choice qs were mini essays... :/
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I wasnt even sure how to use the evidence. Couln't even relate it to the theory properly. Btw, what did people write for the very last question (timing and what ever the other thing was).
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What did you guys put for how neurons die - I said the membrane of the axon is pierced, creating a hole and thereby causing an influx of sodium ions into the axon and causing potassium ions to rush out of axon, disrupting action potential / action potential cannot be generated leading to the death of the neuron. Is this correct?
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Not doing Bio 3/4, but the year 12's just walked out and from what i've heard the exam was ridiculous lol :-\
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It was multi regional for the last question
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It was multi regional for the last question
damn
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Not doing Bio 3/4, but the year 12's just walked out and from what i've heard the exam was ridiculous lol :-\
Overall, the exam was alright, about the same difficulty as last year. But some of the questions were really cryptic - couldn't even tell for sure what the question wanted.
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Congrats on finishing guys! I'll be happy to upload my version of answers if someone can get the exam scanned & uploaded! :)
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It was multi regional for the last question
What's your reasoning?
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Overall, the exam was alright, about the same difficulty as last year. But some of the questions were really cryptic - couldn't even tell for sure what the question wanted.
It was harder than last year. There were no easy genetic cross questions in this one
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Ermagherd.
IMO, that was definitley harder than last year, way less easy recall marks and no experimental design! (Unless I missed it oops)
I definitley bombed..... Reduced workload is not looking as probable for next year after that.
I also did Out of Africa, purely because I completely forgot what the Multiregional hypothesis even was :'(
Also, did ADP+Pi count as one of the input molecules for the light dependent reactions?
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Ermagherd.
IMO, that was definitley harder than last year, way less easy recall marks and no experimental design! (Unless I missed it oops)
I definitley bombed..... Reduced workload is not looking as probable for next year after that.
I also did Out of Africa, purely because I completely forgot what the Multiregional hypothesis even was :'(
Also, did ADP+Pi count as one of the input molecules for the light dependent reactions?
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Most people did out of Africa I think
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I think adp + Pi should be alright
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Lol I still dont understand why it's multiregional. I know I screwed that question up, so I'm probs wrong.
What did people get for the mc with the trait involving the mtDNA?
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Guys just remember that a hard exam means that A+ would be granted for a lower percentage than normal! General consensus from what I've heard is that it was a tricky exam!
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Also, what did people write for the fish hypothesis? The one with different fossils in different strata?
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Lol I still dont understand why it's multiregional. I know I screwed that question up, so I'm probs wrong.
What did people get for the mc with the trait involving the mtDNA?
Yeah I screwed up the Africa as well, that multiple choice was d I think
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Also, what did people write for the fish hypothesis? The one with different fossils in different strata?
I put that ocean predators were introduced in the middle of the time period, creating a selective advantage for a large dorsal spine as it would scare away the predators. Then the predator died out and spine sizes returned to normal gradually.
Do you think that would be right/get a mark??
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Also, what did people write for the fish hypothesis? The one with different fossils in different strata?
For the 1 mark question, I said the environment changed from freshwater --> ocean like water --> freshwater.
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For the 1 mark question, I said the environment changed from freshwater --> ocean like water --> freshwater.
I just said the change of water salinity
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Yeah I screwed up the Africa as well, that multiple choice was d I think
Was the trait supposed to be X linked?
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I said out of africa wtf?
How is it multi regional wow i cant believe i did not realise this, add another 5 marks to my misfortunes...
I said out of africa because it said modern humans came from africa, and that modern humans did not share neanderthal DNA. wow....
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Was the trait supposed to be X linked?
no it was mitochondrial, so only from mother to offspring, i got d too
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I said out of africa wtf?
How is it multi regional wow i cant believe i did not realise this, add another 5 marks to my misfortunes...
I said out of africa because it said modern humans came from africa, and that modern humans did not share neanderthal DNA. wow....
I said out-of-africa aswell.
Can somebody explain to me how it's multi-regional hypothesis?
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I put that ocean predators were introduced in the middle of the time period, creating a selective advantage for a large dorsal spine as it would scare away the predators. Then the predator died out and spine sizes returned to normal gradually.
Do you think that would be right/get a mark??
I literally had no idea, just went majorly general and said that the phenotypic makeup of the fish population changed in response to the changing selection pressures of their lake environment.
Pretty sure I was too general in like 50% of questions - I'm really not optimistic at all any more.....
Was the trait supposed to be X linked?
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I said out of africa wtf?
How is it multi regional wow i cant believe i did not realise this, add another 5 marks to my misfortunes...
I said out of africa because it said modern humans came from africa, and that modern humans did not share neanderthal DNA. wow....
Don't worry. If you didn't get it then no one did
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I just said the change of water salinity
Damn. I screwed it up then. Wasn't specific enough. Did it say anything about salt/ocean water and the dorsal etc traits in the stem question? I just wrote that the selection pressures changed drastically for a period of time, which selected for "" traits.
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Damn. I screwed it up then. Wasn't specific enough. Did it say anything about salt/ocean water and the dorsal etc traits in the stem question? I just wrote that the selection pressures changed drastically for a period of time, which selected for "" traits.
No, i you're right as well. You basically explain the same idea
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Don't worry. If you didn't get it then no one did
how do you know multiregional was the answer im so depressed rn
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how do you know multiregional was the answer im so depressed rn
my teacher said it was out-of-africa so idk
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my teacher said it was out-of-africa so idk
same.
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what did guys get for the DNA mc question, antiparallel or double helix?
and the linked genes... oh man... what did you circle ? :(
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what did guys get for the DNA mc question, antiparallel or double helix?
and the linked genes... oh man... what did you circle ? :(
Antiparrallel
I think i circled the second one (i don't really remember)
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Do you have the exact question for the mutli-regional or Out of Africa Hypothesis question? I may be able to answer it and give my 2 cents...
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how do you know multiregional was the answer im so depressed rn
I don't know guys. My teacher said it was multi regional. Maybe they accept both
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same.
they better give us marks for out of africa because:
It said AFRICAN DESCENDED HUMANS did NOT have Neanderthal DNA, and hence they did not interbreed = out of africa
Where as multi regional, even the african descended humans would have neanderthal DNA because interbreeding would be common
Such an ambiguous question...
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Antiparrallel
I think i circled the second one (i don't really remember)
Pretty certain it was the 2nd one
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Antiparrallel
I think i circled the second one (i don't really remember)
same but what did you support it with? I made up the biggest bs...
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Well, i think i need to put this stupid bio exam behind me and focus on the upcoming further exam
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I don't know guys. My teacher said it was multi regional. Maybe they accept both
Let's pray that they'll take either, depending on your justification....
I wonder around what mark the A+ cutoff will be?
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A+ cut off will probably be around low 90s again..
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A+ cut off will probably be around low 90s again..
Honestly the only hard questions were the last 2. Can't believe there was so little on inheritance
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The question about the comparison of structures in fossils was so unexpected.. i got it so wrong
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An A+ last year was 87%
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Let's pray that they'll take either, depending on your justification....
I wonder around what mark the A+ cutoff will be?
I thought that the exam was pretty good, easier than last year in my opinion. However, I thought the multiple choice questions were a bit tricky like some of them I had to toss up between to answers. People at my school had mixed response some saying it was okay others saying it was a disaster
I think the last question you could write either out of africa or multi regional as long as your reasoning is right.
I think I stuffed up the piercing membrane question...
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my teacher said it was out-of-africa so idk
I honestly think that its out of africa. I'll try reason for this.
So basically homo sapiens evolved in africa first before emigrating and displacing other homo species.
-I think that the DNA evidence also supports this
-So basically why the African individuals do not have neanderthal DNA is because their homo sapien ancestors remained in Africa, instead of migrating.
-Other homo spaiens (which originally evolved in Africa) moved to other continents (from africa to middle east -->europe/east asia---. and finally Australia). Basically interbreeding occured and hence neaderthal dna exists in homo sapiens of which inhabited these regions.
So both DNA evidence supports this.
I honestly didnt write my answer like this (I panicked and contradicted myself to rip marks).
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The question about the comparison of structures in fossils was so unexpected.. i got it so wrong
ahah i guessed comparative morphology.
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I thought that the exam was pretty good, easier than last year in my opinion. However, I thought the multiple choice questions were a bit tricky like some of them I had to toss up between to answers. People at my school had mixed response some saying it was okay others saying it was a disaster
I think the last question you could write either out of africa or multi regional as long as your reasoning is right.
I think I stuffed up the piercing membrane question...
For the membrane one I put that the extracellular fluid would come into the cell changing the pH of the neuron and preventing chemical reactions catalysed by enzymes from occurring, causing cell death
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The question about the comparison of structures in fossils was so unexpected.. i got it so wrong
Was it comparative morphology or comparative anatomy? Lel I am defintiley not getting an A+ unless it was out of Africa AND I didn't drop a mark on MC...
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I thought that the exam was pretty good, easier than last year in my opinion. However, I thought the multiple choice questions were a bit tricky like some of them I had to toss up between to answers. People at my school had mixed response some saying it was okay others saying it was a disaster
I think the last question you could write either out of africa or multi regional as long as your reasoning is right.
I think I stuffed up the piercing membrane question...
How did you find that easier than last year. Last years exam was the easiest exam I've done
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Was it comparative morphology or comparative anatomy? Lel I am defintiley not getting an A+ unless it was out of Africa AND I didn't drop a mark on MC...
According to my teacher who marks the papers, it's not on the study design so everyone should get a mark as long as they wrote something..........
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How did you find that easier than last year. Last years exam was the easiest exam I've done
Yeah.. honestly found this year's exam much harder than the 2013 and 2014 one.
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No joke I was staring at that meiosis diagram for a good 10 minutes
The gene cloning mcq, was it because bacteria undergo mitosis exponentially?
The linked genes question took me ages, I ended up drawing a corss and wrote one line of justification hope its enough haha
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ahah i guessed comparative morphology.
Likewise. I wrote comparative morphology as well. Pretty sure its right.
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No joke I was staring at that meiosis diagram for a good 10 minutes
The gene cloning mcq, was it because bacteria undergo mitosis exponentially?
The linked genes question took me ages, I ended up drawing a corss and wrote one line of justification hope its enough haha
Bacteria don't undergo mitosis
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No joke I was staring at that meiosis diagram for a good 10 minutes
The gene cloning mcq, was it because bacteria undergo mitosis exponentially?
The linked genes question took me ages, I ended up drawing a corss and wrote one line of justification hope its enough haha
I also said bacteria undergo mitosis exponentially
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Yeah.. honestly found this year's exam much harder than the 2013 and 2014 one.
Lucky you, I found 2014 so so easy, and this years, well, awful to be honest. I don't know if the exam was necessarily that much harder, but 2014 kind of played to my strengths, if you will, whereas this exposed my weaknesses.
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what gametes did you guys write for the linked genes question? the crossing over and non-crossing over?
i put the left but apparently it's the middle
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i did the middle one but guessed it, but i was referring to the table question where you had to put crossed over gametes and non crossed over gametes. did anyone else only have two gametes for the crossing over? far out i know i did this one wrong i had absolutelty no idea..
i just swapped the top and bottom to get the other two combinations? idk if that's right
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i just swapped the top and bottom to get the other two combinations? idk if that's right
Yep that's right
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wait did you write them as the bb/aa or what? damn i thought they were meant to be like just gametes like aa or bb ? omg... :(
I did like B/r and b/R or whatever it was and then r/B and R/b so yeah i think you had to write them with the linked notation
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wait did you write them as the bb/aa or what? damn i thought they were meant to be like just gametes like aa or bb ? omg... :(
No you don't have the lines for gametes
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No you don't have the lines for gametes
seriously?! ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I did like B/r and b/R or whatever it was and then r/B and R/b so yeah i think you had to write them with the linked notation
I drew the gametes instead, would that suffice?
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I drew the gametes instead, would that suffice?
can't remember if it strictly asked for the genotypes but if not that sounds good
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It said crossing over didnt occur so I put Br Br br br
and if it did occur then bR Br bR Br
Bacteria dont undergo mitosis omg that was so stupid of me hahaha
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I drew the gametes instead, would that suffice?
Didn't it ask for the gametes
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What did everyone write for the first question on aggregates?
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It said crossing over didnt occur so I put Br Br br br
and if it did occur then bR Br bR Br
Bacteria dont undergo mitosis omg that was so stupid of me hahaha
Wrote that too, couldn't figure out the evidence for the genotype though on the next question
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ahah i guessed comparative morphology.
I wrote that too! Except I had bio in front of comparative
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Overall, the exam was alright, about the same difficulty as last year. But some of the questions were really cryptic - couldn't even tell for sure what the question wanted.
Yes - I agree. Sometimes I answered questions with answers I knew were right but had no idea if they were even remotely answering the question. There was one in particular that was confusingly vague... Can't remember which
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What SS are people hoping for, realistically?
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Still reckon the cut-off is probably similar to 2013, maybe 92-94. If it's higher than 96 that's crazy.
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i did the middle one but guessed it, but i was referring to the table question where you had to put crossed over gametes and non crossed over gametes. did anyone else only have two gametes for the crossing over? far out i know i did this one wrong i had absolutelty no idea..
I circled the middle one at the last minute and wrote a 4 worded justification, didnt even have time to read the actual question lol
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Still reckon the cut-off is probably similar to 2013, maybe 92-94. If it's higher than 96 that's crazy.
What is the cut-off? Like what does it mean?
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Didn't it ask for the gametes
This is pretty much what I did for the first part (or something like that). I don't really remember the rest of the question though.
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What SS are people hoping for, realistically?
42+
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Completely stuffed up that gamete question... was it only two marks?
and also the very last when about when Aboriginals were present in Australia... what did u get? I got really confused -.-
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Still reckon the cut-off is probably similar to 2013, maybe 92-94. If it's higher than 96 that's crazy.
No way. 2013 was incredibly simple. I doubt it will be more than 92
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I think regardless of the outcome, we should all be proud of ourselves. Obviously this year's exam wasn't easy but we tried our best and it won't be the end of the world if you don't get your desired result. Good job 2015 biology students!!!! ;)
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Completely stuffed up that gamete question... was it only two marks?
and also the very last when about when Aboriginals were present in Australia... what did u get? I got really confused -.-
That one part was 2 marks but I think 4 marks overall??
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i am no way confident of my answer but i said :
route: the african hominins migrated out of africa and into europe, east asian and middle east and then made their way to australia
time: 80000 years ago (this is for sure incorrect, i guessed this)
Hope you're not incorrect because I said exactly the same thing
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I've finished bio, I'm home and I'm eating nuggets, it's time to move on with my life.
Ps I said approx 60,000 years, because they must have migrated after interbreeding.
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i am no way confident of my answer but i said :
route: the african hominins migrated out of africa and into europe, east asian and middle east and then made their way to australia
time: 80000 years ago (this is for sure incorrect, i guessed this)
lol didnt properly understand what the time question meant, (tried to see if i had to estimate a time), but thought that that wasnt what I was supposed to do so I said some bs that didnt make sense. fml
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im probably wrong dw
what did you guys write for that radioactive dating question 1:1 ratio?
1.25 billion years. (since only one half life occured)
edit* million years or what ever it was lol
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im probably wrong dw
what did you guys write for that radioactive dating question 1:1 ratio?
I said 1.25 billion yrs
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yeah it should be 1.25 billion
Edit: just answering some other questions, i wrote that humans migrated through the middle east and east asia to australia, and for the timing i wrote that they likely passed east asia around 60,000 years ago
The linked genes questions i felt pretty confident on, a question on linked genes was on one of the past exams so i studied it a bit
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This is pretty much what I did for the first part (or something like that). I don't really remember the rest of the question though.
I thought they just asked for the genotypes of the gametes.. Like, you just write in BR, br etc. - not the entire chromosome?
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I thought they just asked for the genotypes of the gametes.. Like, you just write in BR, br etc. - not the entire chromosome?
Yep that should be right, in the box right? on the next page the answer was the middle one with Br/bR
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I thought they just asked for the genotypes of the gametes.. Like, you just write in BR, br etc. - not the entire chromosome?
Yeah, asked for genotypes of gametes only. And yeah, it was the middle one that was circled.
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so in the first short answer question how did the aggregates cause cell death, looking back now i think it might've had something to do with the spiky bits piercing cells or something but i wrote something about inhibiting enzymes
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Yep that should be right, in the box right? on the next page the answer was the middle one with Br/bR
Dammit....yeah it was the question with the boxes.
I did circle Br/bR so hopefully my justification is sound enough.
For the amino acid question, did you guys include Met (or something like that) as part of your answer?
I ask because the next question regarding the position of the fifth amino acid tripped me up quite a bit
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Dammit....yeah it was the question with the boxes.
I did circle Br/bR so hopefully my justification is sound enough.
For the amino acid question, did you guys include Met (or something like that) as part of your answer?
i think i had 8 amino acids?
and for the cell death question, i said because the cell membrane is pierced, there will be no regulation of sodium and potassium ions in/out of the neurones, and so there will be also no action potentials too which will cause them to die? idk.. :(
for the mutation, i said switch I think it was A with C so that a stop codon would be produced and only five triplets were coded for?
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For the amino acid question, did you guys include Met (or something like that) as part of your answer?
do you mean the one where a mutation causes the chain to shorten? Yeah include met or whatever and i think it ended up being 7 amino acids long in the first part. cant remember exactly
Edit: yeah it couldve been 8, something along those lines
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so in the first short answer question how did the aggregates cause cell death, looking back now i think it might've had something to do with the spiky bits piercing cells or something but i wrote something about inhibiting enzymes
Yeah, I though it was a question asking about the structure, so I wrote something wrong for that aswell. Should've been something like: "The star shape structure enable the amyloid beta protein to pierce the membrane, causing the celluar contents of the neurons to spill out (essentially induces necrosis/inability for celluar metabolism to continue), hence the neurons are unable to function and as a result, brain cells (which are composed of mostly neurons) die off. The death of neurons produces the symptoms of "" disease"
Probs talk about how there are no action potentials generated or something like that.
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do you mean the one where a mutation causes the chain to shorten? Yeah include met or whatever and i think it ended up being 7 amino acids long in the first part. cant remember exactly
Edit: yeah it couldve been 8, something along those lines
oh damn I wrote 6 for some reason
realising I did worse than I thought
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Also- what did people write for the vaccine question? It was 4 marks...
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something about it being attenuated, and causes the production of memory cells and antibodies, which grant the person long term immunity, then i wrote something about subsequent exposures
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something about it being attenuated, and causes the production of memory cells and antibodies, which grant the person long term immunity, then i wrote something about subsequent exposures
Same
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differences between humoral and cell-mediated?
what was the valve question, is it just there to ensure one way flow?
what cells are found in lymph nodes for innate immunity (macrophages?) and adaptive (plasma B cells?)
also was it 8 or 7 amino acids coded i cant remember im having bad thoughts about this :(
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differences between humoral and cell-mediated?
what was the valve question, is it just there to ensure one way flow?
what cells are found in lymph nodes for innate immunity (macrophages?) and adaptive (plasma B cells?)
also was it 8 or 7 amino acids coded i cant remember im having bad thoughts about this :(
8 amino acids and natural killer cells maybe??
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differences between humoral and cell-mediated?
what was the valve question, is it just there to ensure one way flow?
what cells are found in lymph nodes for innate immunity (macrophages?) and adaptive (plasma B cells?)
also was it 8 or 7 amino acids coded i cant remember im having bad thoughts about this :(
Rest assured I'm pretty much certain (99.9% sure) it was 8.
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8 amino acids and natural killer cells maybe??
Likewise. 8 Amino Acids.
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differences between humoral and cell-mediated?
what was the valve question, is it just there to ensure one way flow?
what cells are found in lymph nodes for innate immunity (macrophages?) and adaptive (plasma B cells?)
also was it 8 or 7 amino acids coded i cant remember im having bad thoughts about this :(
Cant remember what i wrote for differences but i remember writing macrophages for innate and for adaptive the question mentioned an established rough endoplasmic reticulum so i wrote about plasma cells, the exam has been scanned so ill check it now
Edit, yep its 8
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What SS are people hoping for, realistically?
Before the exam I was thinking definitely 42+, but after that hellish exam I'll be happy with even a 30
I think the easy psych exam the day before made me too relaxed about exams haha
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first 10 SA questions I thought I did really well maybe lost a few marks but the last one was horrendous.
whats the thought on A+ cut-offs and 45 cut-offs (rank 1)
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first 10 SA questions I thought I did really well maybe lost a few marks but the last one was horrendous.
whats the thought on A+ cut-offs and 45 cut-offs (rank 1)
Maybe like 96/110
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No idea, I did a bit better on this compared to the 2014/2013 ones on my first go, but that might be because of getting better at this stuff, most people seem to think itll be pretty low
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Maybe like 96/110
for a 45?
No idea, I did a bit better on this compared to the 2014/2013 ones on my first go, but that might be because of getting better at this stuff, most people seem to think itll be pretty low
I actually think I did pretty well except for the last 5 marks and the 2 marks question for comparing the sediment(didn't really have enough info for 2 marks) :(
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for a 45?
I actually think I did pretty well except for the last 5 marks and the 2 marks question for comparing the sediment(didn't really have enough info for 2 marks) :(
In a hard exam then yes. Maybe a little higher like 99/110
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Had a look at the exam. Wow that paper was hard - I'm pegging a cutoff of about 86-90/110.
About the last question - I think the evidence showed that humans originated in Africa. If early H. sapiens originated in say Asia - then they'd have been mating with Neanderthals. At some point, they would have migrated to Africa - with the Neanderthal DNA in them. However, since present day Africans do not have Neanderthal DNA, there's a contradiction.
If humans originated in Africa, then some would migrate and mate with Neanderthals elsewhere, but the ones in Africa remain in Africa, never mate with Neanderthals, and therefore have no Neanderthal DNA.
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Had a look at the exam. Wow that paper was hard - I'm pegging a cutoff of about 86-90/110.
About the last question - I think the evidence showed that humans originated in Africa. If early H. sapiens originated in say Asia - then they'd have been mating with Neanderthals. At some point, they would have migrated to Africa - with the Neanderthal DNA in them. However, since present day Africans do not have Neanderthal DNA, there's a contradiction.
If humans originated in Africa, then some would migrate and mate with Neanderthals elsewhere, but the ones in Africa remain in Africa, never mate with Neanderthals, and therefore have no Neanderthal DNA.
Yeah, about the Out of Africa question, this was basically my line of thinking. Except for the fact that I didn't write my answer correctly.What really confused me was the fact that the Out of Africa hypothesis states that homo spaiens displaced other homonin species without interbreeding, so I ended up writing a contradictory answer. :/
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Cant remember what i wrote for differences but i remember writing macrophages for innate and for adaptive the question mentioned an established rough endoplasmic reticulum so i wrote about plasma cells, the exam has been scanned so ill check it now
Edit, yep its 8
Confused, how is it 8 amino acids?
Wasn't there a start codon (TAC), 7 amino acids and then a stop codon (ATT)
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Confused, how is it 8 amino acids?
Wasn't there a start codon (TAC), 7 amino acids and then a stop codon (ATT)
No amino acid for stop codon!!!
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Confused, how is it 8 amino acids?
Wasn't there a start codon (TAC), 7 amino acids and then a stop codon (ATT)
the start codon also adds an amino acid,making it 8
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also does thylakoid membrane = granum (for that light dependent reactions question)
i wouldnt think so, since a granum is a stack of thylakoids, not thylakoid membranes
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honestly i have no idea anymore, i thought i knew but they all have too many names lol
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what did you guys put down for the very last question?
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it is out of Africa theory but how the heck do you use the evidence to explain it?
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what did you guys put down for the very last question?
From what I've looked at:
Route: Africa --> Middle East --> East Asia --> Australia
Timing: approximately 20 000 years (not 100% sure of this though)
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Just bringing my background knowledge into this, aboriginal australians existed around 45,000 years ago didn't they, so wouldn't it be more accurate to say withing the last 80,000 years?
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Just bringing my background knowledge into this, aboriginal australians existed around 45,000 years ago didn't they, so wouldn't it be more accurate to say withing the last 80,000 years?
I said 30,000 to 80,000 years ago (I had no idea what to do)
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Dw I couldnt remember the other so I put out of africa. Its probably multi regional now that I think about it ._.
It should be out of Africa. If it was multinational then African population would have Neanderthal DNA, which they don't.
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It should be out of Africa. If it was multinational then African population would have Neanderthal DNA, which they don't.
Oh that's true, I guess it might just depend on our justification in the end if both answers are accepted :P
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I'll take anything above 40 as a study score. I made so many stupid mistakes on the exam so pretty sure I got 93-96/110. If the A+ cutoff is like 88 then that should be like a 42/43
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Yeah me too! People say this year's A+ cut off will be around 86-90/110 :(
Please advise ?
If my sac scores range between High A to Low-mid A+ (according to 2014 scaling) and i get around 94-97/110 for exam this year, do you guys think I can get anything above 40? :(
You all nervous? 3 days left...
Thanks!
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Yeah me too! People say this year's A+ cut off will be around 86-90/110 :(
Please advise ?
If my sac scores range between High A to Low-mid A+ (according to 2014 scaling) and i get around 94-97/110 for exam this year, do you guys think I can get anything above 40? :(
You all nervous? 3 days left...
Thanks!
That would definitely be above 40. Probably like 42. I'm predicting that I got 94/110. So dissapointed
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Anyone nervous for the results. I'll take anything above 40
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Same :(
Especially after I saw all the exam solutions...
I would be REALLY happy if i get 40+ :(
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I think you will get 40+ because 94/110 is definitely low-mid a+ and not many people did well on this year's exam
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I feel there's a lot of people disappointed with their bio exam performance (including me), so you're not alone. Stay strong guys :)
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I think you will get 40+ because 94/110 is definitely low-mid a+ and not many people did well on this year's exam
I bloody well hope so
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I think everyone who did bio this year (and who were aiming highly) are super nervous as we have no exam of similar difficulty to compare it with. 😠
I really hope thushans prediction is on point ☺
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Predictions for cut-offs(assuming rank 1 or equivalent):
90/110 - 40SS/A+
95/110 - 45SS
Just to note A+ on the exam doesn't mean a 40 automatically.
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Just got text message, got 43, I'm so happy I though I stuffed the exam :DDDDDDDDDD