Biomolecules and Cells MST

[Belgarion]

how have the mid semester tests been so far? Don't post any questions or anything, just want to know the difficulty in comparison to the practice even though im sure they will alter it from group to group.

[rebeckab]

I didn't do Year 12 Biol, didn't study excessively, and I definitely found it pretty easy, the only things I had to guess were two about osmosis and solutions because I forgot which way was hyper and which was hypo :/

[M-D]

just regarding the practice MST posted on the LMS, question 10 says,

If you viewed the following in a light microscope, in which would you expect to see the largest
nucleolus:

A:an animal cell producing a large amount of protein.
B:a red blood cell.
C:a bacterial cell.
D:a cell at metaphase of mitosis.

the correct answer according to the solutions is A. would the reason for this be that a cell producing the most proteins would require many ribosomes and as the nucleolus is the place for ribosome assembly, for many ribosomes to be assembled the nucleolus would have to quite big. is that correct?

[Belgarion]

yes