SECTION A - Suggested Answers

[cypriottiger]

so qn 1 was binary fission or wasnt? ( i dont have paper to check)

[thushan]

CBDDB BCCCD BAADB DCDDB ABACA

Yup it was binary fission

[stonecold]

CBDDB BCCCD BAADB DCDDB ABACA

I mean you got full marks?

Yeah, Q1 is binary fission.

VCAA are so lame.  I could see through the paper and did that q before the exam even started

[cypriottiger]

lol luckai! its lucky i didnt though, seeing a qn so easy as the first wouldve freaked me out when i got to the trickier ones

[thushan]

for MC i think so

[stonecold]

for MC i think so

good stuff!

[cypriottiger]

um i downloaded the exam but cant open it with special software crap :S any chance of getting it mediafired?

[thushan]

thanks man
you too?

[stonecold]

just download winrar

[stonecold]

thanks man
you too?

it seems so

I was really nervous about them, because I was always getting a few wrong in trials...

[thushan]

Nice. I bet you're going to get 75/75

[cypriottiger]

hey quick SS calculation
im getting mid-A+ for SACs, midyear was A (one mark off A+) and im thinking end of year was 71/75. estimates?

[thushan]

71/75 would be an AMAZING effort

I say about a 45.

[stonecold]

Nice. I bet you're going to get 75/75

Nah, there are some dodgy questions still, particularly:
-Centromere question.  Talked about mitosis and meiosis, and how the deletion of the centromere prevented attachment to the spindle fibres, reducing the chsm number which lead to humans
-Reason for birds dying.

-Reckon they will take both answers for the northern population, as long as you explained your reasoning.

And for questions with number answers, it was
-2/3 in Q1
-1/4 in the translocation question
-22 autosomes

?

[thushan]

For centromere qn i said something like:


•   Non-fused chromosomes and fused chromosomes are non-homologous so in a hybrid (containing both fused and   non-fused) cannot pair up during meiosis
•   This caused instant speciation and the divergence of the human line from the chimpanzee line

Birds dying - there'll be a variety of answers, as long as you back yourself up with evidence you'll be fine

The northern population - they might pay both

And yes it was 2/3, 1/4 and 22.