It's over!

[shinny]

I STUFFED THAT QUESTION UP -- THE DAUGHTER CANNOT GET IT CUZ THE MUTATION WAS IN A SOMATIC CELL   :tickedoff:
i fuked up bio this year  ... i vow to get 50 in all my subjects next year (except for english lol)

gah, it said somatic cell? :[

LOL common trick =\ Guess that emphasises the importance of reading time and reading the stem properly.

[10weid]

hmm..ised the daughter wud be green as it was a somatic mutation, hence not heritable...

[cipherpol]

mcs werent funn, sa was okayy though i guess...lots of ambiguous q's tho so hope markers r somewhat lenient...
for mc questions 9 and 10 it was knida unclear, i reckon they depicted trnascription, did anyone hav any evidence that they cud been DNA repp??

Definitely transcription.

[qshyrn]

I STUFFED THAT QUESTION UP -- THE DAUGHTER CANNOT GET IT CUZ THE MUTATION WAS IN A SOMATIC CELL   :tickedoff:
i fuked up bio this year  ... i vow to get 50 in all my subjects next year (except for english lol)

gah, it said somatic cell? :[

breast cells are somatic cells

[cipherpol]

I STUFFED THAT QUESTION UP -- THE DAUGHTER CANNOT GET IT CUZ THE MUTATION WAS IN A SOMATIC CELL   :tickedoff:
i fuked up bio this year  ... i vow to get 50 in all my subjects next year (except for english lol)

gah, it said somatic cell? :[

breast cells are somatic cells

But I keep hearing from people that breast cancer is genetic :[

[shinny]

Anyone care to give a rough outline of how this question went? I think people are confusing genetic pre-disposition to genetic causation.

[fdsfsgdfgdf]

I STUFFED THAT QUESTION UP -- THE DAUGHTER CANNOT GET IT CUZ THE MUTATION WAS IN A SOMATIC CELL   :tickedoff:
i fuked up bio this year  ... i vow to get 50 in all my subjects next year (except for english lol)

gah, it said somatic cell? :[

breast cells are somatic cells

But I keep hearing from people that breast cancer is genetic :[

yeah i heard that it was genetic lol so confgused

[Pumpkinator]

Needed more time/use my time more efficiently. Guessed too many multiple choice questions =(

[n.f]

Exam was quite long which I don't mind can't believe vce biol. is all over

[Greggler]

yeah, the last question of SA was quite ambigious.
however apart from that i was vetry glad that everything else was quite straight forward - recall of processess etc.

[shea43]

I thought it wasnt too bad. Got it all done and I think only really made a few mistakes. Stupidly read the electrophoresis question wrong. Didnt realise that the band was above the well and so i wrote that the technician didnt use the restriction enzyme. But other than that I reckon that I got most questions alright without too many stupid mistakes

[10weid]

Anyone care to give a rough outline of how this question went? I think people are confusing genetic pre-disposition to genetic causation.

it said that patient X suffers breats cancer, mutation on p53 allele, she has a single mutant allele and a sdingle normal allele.
asks if it would be expected that her daughter would present with a mutant allele of a normal allele.

logically, seemed like somatic mutation not germline so inferred duaghter would express normal allele onlyy?

[fdsfsgdfgdf]

Anyone care to give a rough outline of how this question went? I think people are confusing genetic pre-disposition to genetic causation.

it said that patient X suffers breats cancer, mutation on p53 allele, she has a single mutant allele and a sdingle normal allele.
asks if it would be expected that her daughter would present with a mutant allele of a normal allele.

logically, seemed like somatic mutation not germline so inferred duaghter would express normal allele onlyy?

um it acutaly said something to do with black or red or green dyre not what you said rofl.

[shinny]

Anyone care to give a rough outline of how this question went? I think people are confusing genetic pre-disposition to genetic causation.

it said that patient X suffers breats cancer, mutation on p53 allele, she has a single mutant allele and a sdingle normal allele.
asks if it would be expected that her daughter would present with a mutant allele of a normal allele.

logically, seemed like somatic mutation not germline so inferred duaghter would express normal allele onlyy?

I'm confused. Did she inherit this mutation on the p53 allele, or did it occur spontaneously? If she inherited it, there's a 50% chance her daughter will get it too. If she had it spontaneously, then it won't be passed on to her daughter.

[shea43]

I STUFFED THAT QUESTION UP -- THE DAUGHTER CANNOT GET IT CUZ THE MUTATION WAS IN A SOMATIC CELL   :tickedoff:
i fuked up bio this year  ... i vow to get 50 in all my subjects next year (except for english lol)

gah, it said somatic cell? :[

Breast cancer is on the P53 gene though..?
So it is inherited?

Breast cancer is inherited anyway- we know this from real life...so surely its inherited