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Corey King

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13725 on: October 16, 2021, 01:30:40 am »
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Hey guys,
Would students get given marks for answers that don't line up perfectly with what the examiners report says?
https://gyazo.com/96aae8961b39af2e779679448db0ce10
I already knew what is written in the examiners report, but its such a pain to guess exactly what the examiners expect you to say for non-specific questions.
https://gyazo.com/c02900b00c6082ebc462eef519b26e1e

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13726 on: October 16, 2021, 12:01:44 pm »
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Hey guys,
Would students get given marks for answers that don't line up perfectly with what the examiners report says?
https://gyazo.com/96aae8961b39af2e779679448db0ce10
I already knew what is written in the examiners report, but its such a pain to guess exactly what the examiners expect you to say for non-specific questions.
https://gyazo.com/c02900b00c6082ebc462eef519b26e1e

Hey, I think it really depends. For some questions I think they will definitely accept answers not on their report, given that they are reasonable. But for some question, certain key words and phrases are a must to get the mark.

If you look at the VCAA question you put a link too, you can see the state average is 0.9 ~ 1 / 2, with only 30% of the state getting all two marks. This likely implies to me that they were very strict and specific on what answers they accepted.

If you look at your answer for this question “To build proteins/ peptides from information from mRNA moelcules”. - i think this a bit vague and not specific enough.  TRNA doesn’t exactly build the peptide, it deposits specific amino acids to the ribosome as prescribed by the mRNA strands (via complementary base paring between tRNA anticodons and mRNA codons). 

If you look at your answer for the role of mRNA ; “To acts as a template for tRNA to transcribe from”, i also feel this isn’t specfic enough. TRNA doesn’t transcribe the mRNA strand i don’t think, it just deposits the amino acids required for polypetide production. - Remember this is translation not transcription. I would avoid using the term ‘transcribe’, when talking about tRNA molecules.    —-> So i think a better resposne could include:
   -> mRNA carries information of a particular gene to the ribosome, to allow for the production of the particualr protein
  -> mRNA provides the information for the specfic sequence of amino acids to produce a polypetide via the order of its codons.
 
I’m doing bio 3/4 this year too, so i only know as much as you know, so I can’t be sure if this is right. Hope it helps in some way doe :)
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13727 on: October 16, 2021, 10:22:15 pm »
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Hey guys,
I was just wondering why, during anaerobic respiration, the body doesn't keep pyruvate and store it for later use. Why is it necessary to turn it into lactic acid / ethanol?
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Corey
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During glycolysis, nad+ is turned into nadh. The later stages of anaerobic respiration turning pyruvate into lactic acid/ethanol turns the nadh back into nad+. Without nad+, you can't have glycolysis and the cell only has a limited amount so if it is all tied up as nadh and left as that it wouldn't be able to do any more glycolysis! The lactic acid/ethanol is just a way for the body to be able to convert it back to nad+ to be reused.
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13728 on: October 19, 2021, 04:30:57 pm »
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Hey guys, i just needa lil help understanding and applying the term selection pressure.

According to VCAA, a selection pressure is a factor in an organisms environment that impacts its survival and reproductive success and removes unsuited individuals from the environment, or something like that. This includes things like predation, hunting, increase in climate temperature, etc right???

But I’m still struggling to understand the term in context. For example, for the question “What selection pressures are likely to have been improtant in the evoltuion of bipedalism initially?”, (biozone), the model answer was:
   -> “the selection pressures for bipedalism was most probably associated with provisioning, being able to collect and carry food is a major advantage”
   
What exactly does this mean 😭

Another Biozone question: “name two possible selection pressures acting on the human hand”.
The model answer: the need to manipulate objects and the abiltiy to form a fist and deliver a blow to an attacker”

— Again how is the need to do something a selction pressure?? I jsut can’t seem to get my head around this term and apply it.

Another question: TSSM 2019 biology exam Q7 f : “What selection pressure was applied to the algae?”
This question was about this algae species that was preyed upon by a single cellled flagellate. This flagellate can’t consume large cells, so the algae that was able to form loose clumps survived better in presence of the predator than those alage cells  living as a single cell.

So, in repose to what selction pressure is applied to alage, wouldn’t it be predation?

But the model answer was: “Avoiding been consumed”

If someone could help me understand this term, it would be great. I know I lowkey made it confusing
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13729 on: October 22, 2021, 09:51:13 pm »
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if someone could help with this question

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13730 on: October 23, 2021, 08:36:42 pm »
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if someone could help with this question

Hey,
I’m not too sure but i think the answer is C?? Idk

From the stem of the question we can see that the kelp perch uses the kelp to hide from predators such as kelp bass. As the kelp perch popaultion icnreases, the available spots for the kelp to hide decreases (limiting factor), making the kelp perch more visible to predators. Thus, this scenario is density-dependant. If you look at the graph you can see that proportional mortality increases with kelp perch density, which further hints its density dependant.

With this info, we can straight away eliminate option B and D  which implies this is density independent.

A -> ‘A’ wouldn’t make sense because why would a low kelp population lead to low availability of sheltering sites. It’s rather large kelp popualtion which would lead to low number of available sheltering sites.

So c is correct??

Not too sure :(

Just in case:
  Density dependant factors -> factors that affect a certain popautlion depending on tis density. (eg: food availability.  as popualtion density increase, available food will be consumed much more rapidly, so available food and other resources will become limited) i think??

  Density indepedanat factors -> Factors usually abiotic that influence indivuals in popualtion depsite the density. So no matter what the popaultion size , it will impact the particular popualtion the same way. (Eg: tsunami, earthquake, etc)
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13731 on: October 30, 2021, 08:09:34 pm »
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Hey all,
I was wondering with reproductive human cloning would the clone be parent less.
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13732 on: November 17, 2021, 05:03:34 pm »
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would the answer to this question be x- linked recessive.
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13733 on: November 17, 2021, 05:48:03 pm »
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hello,
would the answer be x- linked dominant.
thank you

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13734 on: November 17, 2021, 07:09:12 pm »
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hello,
would the answer be x- linked dominant.
thank you

Yes. It cannot be Y-linked as females are affected.

For an X-linked dominant trait every daughter of a male with the condition will also have the condition. Thus, the most probable answer is X-linked dominant.

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13735 on: November 19, 2021, 11:50:28 pm »
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thank you for the help would this one also be x linked dominant

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13736 on: November 20, 2021, 07:49:29 pm »
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thank you for the help would this one also be x linked dominant
appears to be the most likely interpretation!

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13737 on: November 21, 2021, 08:10:20 pm »
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hey, how would we figure this question out.
thanks 

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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13738 on: November 21, 2021, 08:19:57 pm »
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hey, how would we figure this question out.
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Which metabolic process makes glucose in the presence in presence of light (as in the diagram) and what would its gaseous byproduct be?
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Re: VCE Biology Question Thread
« Reply #13739 on: November 21, 2021, 08:34:53 pm »
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oxygen - photosynthesis product