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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3615 on: October 20, 2014, 10:34:46 pm »
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Do we need to know the different forms of natural selection - Directional, stabilising and disruptive?

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« Reply #3616 on: October 20, 2014, 11:07:22 pm »
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Ive had these questions in uni physiology, i have no systematic way to go about it really, i've just done it through all memory brute force. The idea that sympathetic = fight and flight/turning things up and parasympathetic = rest and digest/turning things down fails as a method at a certain stage.

Just to add to this, I remember the difference between sympathetic and parasympathetic as follows:

sympathetic- the body is feeling 'sympathetic' for the individual's current situation (e.g. something dangerous) and therefore wants to help out.
parasympathetic- the opposite. I kinda personify the parasympathetic response as a stereotypical hippie. ahaha ::)

For all the different methods of radioisotope dating would this be sufficient (for the age of objects which can be dated by them)

1.) Carbon-14 : objects up to 60,000 years old
2.) Uranium-235: objects over 500,000 years old
3.) Potassium-40: objects over 500,000 years old
4) Rubidium-87: objects over 100 million years old

I seem to find different values (for how old objects can dated with these different methods ) in different sources... o.O

Look through examiner's reports for the exact dates. If you can't find them, then refer to NOB because that's the most common textbook I believe :)
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« Reply #3617 on: October 20, 2014, 11:17:44 pm »
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Look through examiner's reports for the exact dates. If you can't find them, then refer to NOB because that's the most common textbook I believe :)
When you do! please let us know :D
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« Reply #3618 on: October 21, 2014, 12:45:52 pm »
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Just correcting my multiple choice from the LisaChem exam I did yesterday.
Question 31 is about Down Syndrome and which is the best method to detect down syndrome while the foetus is still in the womb.

The options are
A. DNA sequencing
B. DNA hybridisation
C. Observation of morphological features
D. Karyotyping

The answer is hybridisation, but I'm a bit confused about how this could be carried out on a foetus in the womb? Can someone please explain this to me?  :)

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3619 on: October 21, 2014, 02:24:28 pm »
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How do T-cells induce a cell to undergo apoptosis and thus prevent cancer?

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3620 on: October 21, 2014, 02:25:28 pm »
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Just correcting my multiple choice from the LisaChem exam I did yesterday.
Question 31 is about Down Syndrome and which is the best method to detect down syndrome while the foetus is still in the womb.

The options are
A. DNA sequencing
B. DNA hybridisation
C. Observation of morphological features
D. Karyotyping

The answer is hybridisation, but I'm a bit confused about how this could be carried out on a foetus in the womb? Can someone please explain this to me?  :)

Wouldn't worry about it, not on the course (that and I have absolutely no idea how that'd work, I'd have said karyotyping myself)
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3621 on: October 21, 2014, 06:54:20 pm »
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What diagrams do you think we should know how to draw?

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3622 on: October 21, 2014, 06:58:07 pm »
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Just to name a few off the top of my head.... (Please do add more)

-Meiosis
-Mitosis
-Binary Fission
-DNA Replication
-Eznyme activation/inhibition
-Immune Response Diagram
-Antibody First and Secondary Response Graphs
-Allergic Response
-Plasma Membrance
-Plant/Animal Cell (also how they look after varying osmotic effects)
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3623 on: October 21, 2014, 07:03:06 pm »
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Thanks!

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3624 on: October 21, 2014, 07:16:01 pm »
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What's a simple definition for 'hybridisation'?
Annealing of single stranded DNA from different sources (organisms or species?

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« Reply #3625 on: October 21, 2014, 09:23:55 pm »
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Can someone please explain lethal alleles? Thanks! :)

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #3626 on: October 21, 2014, 09:30:50 pm »
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When cloning, why does a cell need to be enucleated?
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« Reply #3627 on: October 21, 2014, 09:37:38 pm »
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Can someone please explain lethal alleles? Thanks! :)
Lethal alleles cause an organism to die/not be born when the combination of the coding trait is in a homozygous nature.
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« Reply #3628 on: October 21, 2014, 09:51:34 pm »
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When cloning, why does a cell need to be enucleated?
The cell needs to be enucleated so that a diploid set of genetic information can be inserted into the egg which will be triggered to form an embryo and will then be inserted into a surrogate. In cloning, fertilisation does not occur, hence a full set of genetic information needs to be provided by a donor nucleus.
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« Reply #3629 on: October 21, 2014, 10:16:00 pm »
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When cloning, why does a cell need to be enucleated?

Basically so that the offspring produced has the desired genetic material that you want to be cloned.

If you didn't enucleate it, the offspring would have the genetic material of the mother of the egg cell (obviously undesirable).