Biol10005 MST practice question help

[MelonBar]

yeah trisha is a nice lady but fucks people over come assessment time

on the last minute of assignment submission i realised i swapped two of my answers around by accident, but because it was printed i had to scribble on unconvincing arrows with a pencil to say the answers were in each other's spot. it was a worth a try but fully expecting a classic trisha red pen circle all over the joint  and everywhere else 

[nguyenanhar]

I got 9/10 from part A because I wrote that the dominant is wildtype, without explanation and -1 for that from Lupton.
Part B is 7/10, -1 from question 1, and -2 from question 3. P were colourless and "PURPLE", but I did my cross with RED. I could not remember how could I made this silly mistake.

But quite a surprise to me, as I had no background in biology, and this semester is the first one in science (I got bachelor degree in Economics, now taking prerequisites.) Biology is kind of a whole new language to me.

[LeviLamp]

Yeah, that's pretty good! You should be very happy, it's way above average
On the note of assignments, I'm noticing everybody I know who has Michelle is getting significantly better marks compared to all the people in my group with Ros, this makes about the fifth person with Michelle to get an H1 and everyone I know from my prac group has gotten a P...
Sent Ros a polite email asking when I can go and talk to her about my mark, hopefully she actually responds :SSS

[Ballerina]

Only 1 person on my table passed. I asked Michelle if it would be standardized and she did not indicate it would. She emphasized most marks were lost regarding the genetic hypothesis. I agree we all should have understood the genetic hypothesis - it was in an early experiment - but the assignment marking was absofruitly ridonkulonk.

[fortweney]

what ridiculous marking.

I only receive A: 9/10 B: 10/10. Very harsh marker, lost mark for explanation not long enough/explained??...what a joke! - marking loss for writing skill instead of biological knowledge, so dumb..

[hobbitle]

Pretty sure fortweney above is just trolling.
I got 8.5/10 and 7/10 and probably deserved most of those marks I lost for not being explicit enough.
I didn't have a problem with the marking.

[LeviLamp]

Who's your tutor? I'm starting to notice patterns here :s
(But congrats on doing so well compared to the average )
Let's hope the exam is disproportionately easy :3

[hobbitle]

My tutor is Michelle which supports your hypothesis

[Ballerina]

My assessor, where only 1 person on my table passed, was Roz. 

[LeviLamp]

Sensing a pattern here :V

[nguyenanhar]

I couldn't sense the overall feelings of people in workshop on that day; but it seems a weird quiescence reigning.
It was a surprise to me because I performed so poorly during Pracs (like 8 8 5.5 9) and I hope that I can make the fifth better; the midterm is just 7.1 although I had been studying many hours before. I am aiming for a H1, but things are getting so hard now. I spend whole weekends rereading lectures/tutes/workshops but hardly get a sense of what is going on. My girlfriend was sick on the due day of ILT 4, and unfortunately I forgot to submit, so a loss of 1% taken into account.

Now reviewing time is really daunting.

I don't know whether you enjoy this subject or not, but to me it's like a constant cycle of marathon and sprint and marathon and sprint and marathon...

 

[Ballerina]

I've been making exam revision powerpoint games on the content of Genetics and the Evolution of Life for my friend. They're below in case anyone wants a brain break for their exam revision. If you spot any Q&A mistakes, IT WAS INTENTIONAL I WAS TESTING YOU WELL DONE <.<

[hobbitle]

Watching Rick's lectures at 1.5x speed is the best thing thats ever happened in my uni career.  Usually he speaks slowly but very enthusiastically, but you speed it to 1.5x and he's like an excitable child.  I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT PROTISTS NOW.

[MelonBar]

From Rick's email:

What is unusual about the two different protistan pirates, the “cryptomonad flagellates” and “chloroarachniophytes”, and what have they taught us about secondary endosymbiosis?  (hint, what is a nucleomorph?)

could someone point me in the right direction?

[hobbitle]

Googling 'nucleomorph' should set you in the right direction.

The questions is a little badly worded, it kind of implies that there is a difference between the two protistan pirates he refers to, but actually they both have the same characteristic that he's addressing (a nucleomorph). A neucleomorph is a remnant nucleus from the eukaryote that the host consumed during secondary endosymbiosis; it still contains some genetic information, and therefore protists with a nucleomorph have 4 genomes (from the mitochondria, chloroplast, nucleus, & nucleomorph) instead of just 3 genomes.