My teacher said that that whole bit about C3, C4 and CAM plants has been removed from the syllabus, so all I'm going to do is have a brief read over it (just in case!).
The Calvin Cycle basically IS the light-independent stage of photosynthesis..I think! (Correct me if I'm wrong). And yes, I think we need to know the whole process in fair detail, but we don't have to memorise every last thing involved. Just the important ones.
Natural killer cells are non-specific, second line of defence cells that will act on any diseased cell; cytotoxic T cells are specific, third line cells that only act, and only on the specific target cell, when presented with an antigen by an MHC marker (an MHC-antigen complex).
...I'm a bit freaked out by the fact that we're getting 9 short answers on the exam this year, as opposed to 6 or 7. Time management is my #1 weakness! Every time I choose a subject, VCAA seems to choose my year to increase the number of questions on the paper for the first time...
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