Biologists! How was it?

[JL_91]

Are you serious?! 4th August is ages away! :/

[Toothpaste]

hormone definition- howd u answer that 1?

I think for that one they wanted you to say that hormones don't just travel in the bloodstream.

[Toothpaste]

Are you serious?! 4th August is ages away! :/

It'll be here soon .
It's also the day of VTAC preferences by the way.

[JL_91]

Haha I had no idea that was also the day of VTAC preferences..I have no idea what to put for mine...

I was so annoyed they didn't put a question about prions on the exam. I love writing about prions!

[AppleXY]

Are you serious?! 4th August is ages away! :/

It'll be here soon .
It's also the day of VTAC preferences by the way.

Yeah 4th August 9:00am is VTAC applications day. It's engrained into my head

[username]

I hope we can all come to one giant agreement on what the hell 'chemical composition' meant. Like some said, the elements made it hard to talk about the function in its relation, but 'protein' doesn't seem to cut it as a chemical composition.

[username]

Oh and for the hormones one I wrote:

produced by endocrine glands
receptor specific
travel in blood
involved in growth etc
protein molecules

But I dont know if thats what it was asking.

[bucket]

lol that hormone question was waaaaay too ambiguous.
I can't even remember what I wrote, I like crapped on explaining everything I knew about hormones rofl. One thing I do remember writing is how nerves can produce neurohormones, meh.

[beezy4eva]

for hormone i think i wrote: a signalling molecule that produces a change in the function of cells. A hormone can either act on the cell its produced by, cells nearby it by diffusing through intercellular fluid or cells in another part of the body by travelling through the bloodstream.

I think i overdid it =S

[annie]

lol that hormone question was waaaaay too ambiguous.
I can't even remember what I wrote, I like crapped on explaining everything I knew about hormones rofl. One thing I do remember writing is how nerves can produce neurohormones, meh.

I think what the examiners were after was the recognition of the role of hormones as a signalling molecules;
I wrote that a hormone is a chemical based messenger molecule that will initiate a specific response on a
target tissue, organ, or cell,

[BA22]

Oh and for the hormones one I wrote:

produced by endocrine glands
receptor specific
travel in blood
involved in growth etc
protein molecules

But I dont know if thats what it was asking.

This is a pretty good outline of what you should have said, only thing missing is a mention of lipid based hormones.

[mhsstudent]

i put down fibrin as my firbrous protein a few people in my class did that too, did anyone else?

[Toothpaste]

i put down fibrin as my firbrous protein a few people in my class did that too, did anyone else?

me too and blood clot's the function.

[clau.diia]

For the hormone one I wrote

"A chemical substance which travels in the bloodstream, other body fluids and adjacent tissue to its target cell which intiates a response"

or something along those lines.

I wrote collagen for the the protein....then I forgot it's function so I probably stuffed that up.

[chris]

i thought dendritic cells present the foreighn parts to the mhc markers which are located on the cell membranes which in turn activate a specific type of response. anyways otehr then taht question i thought the examw a spretty straight forward and easy, surprised nothign on amst cells infalamotory respons ige's etc popped up , not much on both the hunmoral or cell mediated response.. However i did think the paper was long and i ahd to rush at the end just a tad.