Genetics and the evolution of life (BIOL10005): Exam thread

[VivaTequila]

Man the fossils! I only knew one.. archaeopteryx.

Pretty much forgot about x inactivation, the angiosperms question was expected (but my fourth reaason was pretty crap), made up complete bs about the selection questions. Yeah I probably did waste a little bit of time, but I guess its bonus marks.

I got lucky with the fossils.. I knew about Acanthostega because of one of the questions the same exam asked what was unusual about the first tetrapods (8 digits). I knee of them were ammonites or trilobites; then i remembered trilobites were arthropods from the exam exam so i picked the insect looking thing as trilobite and the snail looking thing as ammonite. the bird one was pretty obvious.

I guess section D depends sort of on luck and how much you know about the topic. IF i have gotten a question about distinction between sub-classes and a question about DNA manipulation (methylation/acetylation) then i probably would've failed lol.

EDIT:

Just got an email from Dawn saying

Dear Students,

Unfortunately there were two questions on the exam today in which there were
errors.

Please be reassured that the questions affected by these errors will not be
included in the assessment.

Regards, Dawn

Sorry to crush your confidence, but Ammonite was the Omastar looking thing and the Trilobite was the Kabuto type thing. They were both on there.

I happened to know all 5 fossils from completely distinct, random, separate phenomena. I remember looking through the lecture notes thinking "I really want to know what a hallucigenia looks like[/b], so I looked it up.

The others, I dunno. I just knew them lol.

What do you mean?

I got them right... Trilobite,ammonite and hallucigenia.

Trilobite = insect looking one
ammonite = the large snail
Hallucigena= spiky worm on both sides

Edit: maybe poor wording on my previous post i think..i didin't proof read it lol

The acanostega was the 8 fingered tetrapod i think and the bird was the archerotexy or some name like that...

How did I misinterpret your original post so badly? What the...?

LOL.

[Starlight]

How did you guys know the diagrams? I don't even remember what lecture they were in, I remember the archaeopteryx one though

The sample exam had questions about which species died during the two extinction periods so i had to learn about Trilobites (Cretaceous-Tertiary) and Ammonites (Permian-Triassic).

The Hallucigenia i vaguely remember the lecturer talking about how they named it so when they thought they were hallucinating lol.

And the 8 digit tetrapod was in one of the sample exam question so i knew what it looked like...

Man that's what 4 exams in a week does to you. No time to finish the sample exams or anything

[jinny1]

How did you guys know the diagrams? I don't even remember what lecture they were in, I remember the archaeopteryx one though

The sample exam had questions about which species died during the two extinction periods so i had to learn about Trilobites (Cretaceous-Tertiary) and Ammonites (Permian-Triassic).

The Hallucigenia i vaguely remember the lecturer talking about how they named it so when they thought they were hallucinating lol.

And the 8 digit tetrapod was in one of the sample exam question so i knew what it looked like...

Man that's what 4 exams in a week does to you. No time to finish the sample exams or anything

yea your exam schedule is so jam packed...

Lucky mine are spread out so i only had two concentrate on 2 exams for the past week.

[Starlight]

How did you guys know the diagrams? I don't even remember what lecture they were in, I remember the archaeopteryx one though

The sample exam had questions about which species died during the two extinction periods so i had to learn about Trilobites (Cretaceous-Tertiary) and Ammonites (Permian-Triassic).

The Hallucigenia i vaguely remember the lecturer talking about how they named it so when they thought they were hallucinating lol.

And the 8 digit tetrapod was in one of the sample exam question so i knew what it looked like...

Man that's what 4 exams in a week does to you. No time to finish the sample exams or anything

yea your exam schedule is so jam packed...

Lucky mine are spread out so i only had two concentrate on 2 exams for the past week.

Sigh. That was me last semester. Except my exam timetable was even better... a 10 day gap between exam 1 and exam 2.