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Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« on: July 25, 2012, 07:42:14 pm »
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I've got mine tomorrow at 9am but I've got work right after so skipping it would be ideal ;)

But then again, is it something that's being marked or something worth having a shot at?

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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 11:13:32 pm »
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They scan your student ids.

It's not being marked, I just did the pipetting stuff. Our whole prac table left without the demonstrator noticing for the drawing we cbf.
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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 09:55:33 am »
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I don't know how i'm gonna survive a whole semester of biology prac again.

Had to make my partner to all the work in the mouse dissection because i just can't stand the smell and the sight :/
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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 02:42:13 pm »
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I don't know how i'm gonna survive a whole semester of biology prac again.

Had to make my partner to all the work in the mouse dissection because i just can't stand the smell and the sight :/

eww the mouse dissection, yep made my partner do that too (I felt so bad afterwards because she hated mice too)
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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2012, 04:14:42 pm »
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I guess that's one good thing about Monash's first-year Biology course: we don't dissect actual mice; we use a simulator.

Though we will have to dissect a toad...

(And isn't mouse dissection a very archaic prac? Are there any health concerns in doing it? I had no idea it was still allowed in student labs!)
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« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 11:49:47 pm »
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They smell like alcohol. Probably well sterilised and were bred for experimental purposes.

There was a pregnant mouse in one of the students mouse and you could see the little baby mice!!
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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2012, 12:11:50 pm »
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They smell like alcohol. Probably well sterilised and were bred for experimental purposes.

There was a pregnant mouse in one of the students mouse and you could see the little baby mice!!

that's so disgusting.. lol
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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2012, 12:45:13 pm »
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They smell like alcohol. Probably well sterilised and were bred for experimental purposes.

There was a pregnant mouse in one of the students mouse and you could see the little baby mice!!

What.

(I feel a little bad for it...)
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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2012, 07:33:16 pm »
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Lol yeah we had numerous placenta in our mouse with around 6-7 little unborn babies in them. Cute but sad.. :/

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Re: Worth it going to the first intro prac for Genetics?!
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2012, 10:43:48 am »
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Lol yeah we had numerous placenta in our mouse with around 6-7 little unborn babies in them. Cute but sad.. :/

We were in the same bio prac then hah.

You guys are kinda squeamish then? It doesn't phase me in the slightest. That's not to say I LOVE PLAYING WITH MOUSE CADAVERS AND CUTTING OPEN HEARTS, I don't think it'd be a desirable day job, but I also don't get phased much by it.