Biol10005 MST practice question help

[hobbitle]

Haha. Well. I look older than the rest of you by about a decade so that should narrow things down!

[Ballerina]

Nope! That describes half my friends.

[hobbitle]

Really? Interesting! I tend to get along well with the students of school leaver age but sometimes wish there were some older people who have been as indecisive about their studies as I have

[MelonBar]

What's so special about the Wollemi Pine? Is it evidence for continental drift?

[LeviLamp]

Demonstrates Gondwanan past of Australia, former conifer dominance (matches to fossils found from millions of years ago) etc. etc.

[simpak]

I am so curious as to what Levi and Nicola look like in real life. If you see me at REB on Friday, come say hi!! I'll be in a red shirt/lipstick, black skirt/stockings/hair and likely standing next to a tall man in plaid. I may or may not be holding 500 flashcards.

+5000 respect for planning exam outfits in advance.
We would be great friends.

[hobbitle]

hobbitle, you need to do the proportion, not use the entire sample of attached/unattached - divide by 0.84 instead of 1

Thankyou!

Also, a little nitpicky thing, Question 2 Section C of sample exam....  how shit is that drawing???
Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the first antennae and the second antennae, especially on a sketch that crappy?
Apparently A is 'second antennae' but I can't see any first antennae on the drawing.

[hobbitle]

I'm going to assume we aren't expected to learn the 5 latin names for the subphyla of the Echinoderms since Theresa couldn't even pronounce them in the lecture.... right guys?  Right? 

OK, I can't do it anymore.  Need to work on another subject for a while.  Then 3 or so more hours tonight on Hominid/Great Ape stuff and then I think that's just about all the Biology I can fit in my brain.

Good luck friends.

[LeviLamp]

I reckon remembering Asteroidea is a good idea (starfish), but I doubt she'd ask about the others (maybe sea cucumbers, Holothuroidea?). The others she didn't mention at all, though there was that question about the tube feet of crinoids on the practice exam >___>

[hobbitle]

Did you answer the question about determiniing the sex of an animal?

Way back in Lecture 6...!

[hobbitle]

Yeah it is believed that the archaea are more similar to eukaryotes in many ways especially at the DNA level. They LOOK like bacteria but act more like eukaryotes at the molecular level.
Cyanobacteria didn't give rise to eukaryotes, neither did the purple bacteria (which were engulfed by eukaryotes before the Cyanobacteria were) - they just gave rise to chloroplasts in eukaryotes.
But the whole thing is pretty grey even amongst experts!

[hobbitle]

I found the sample paper pretty OK once I had revised all the material (first time I looked at it was a bit terrifying!).

Both the crustacean drawing and the timeline diagram (with the extinctions and stuff) were really crappily drawn and unclear. I hope they life their game for the diagrams on the actual exam.

Definitely harder this semester than last but we'll see how the exam is...

[LeviLamp]

Was it Section D? I haven't done those, since I still have four Theresa lectures to get through and then a brief skim of my ~200 pages of notes to do before the exam ;A;
If it wasn't then I've totally forgotten about it, Sashimi

[hobbitle]

Srsly guys.  Lecture 16.  We've had like, no practise questions or workbook questions from it.  Not even any MC.  Was it JUST FOR FUN???  Not possible.

[LeviLamp]

don't scare me now I haven't memorised the nitty-gritty of those case studies ;----;