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* Biology Higher level 2011 * (one thread please)

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    #152
    MikeHough
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭MikeHough


    whoa. that's weird. yeast can make alcohol from glucose
    AND
    glucose from sucrose

    weird


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    #153
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    I'm really worried about this test, too much to try cram in in such a small space of time :(


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    #154
    macskanadrag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭macskanadrag


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    I'm really worried about this test, too much to try cram in in such a small space of time :(

    Aye, that's normal :) Good thing is, it's today! Then it's over - the biology anyway ;)


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    #155
    Dr.Evil
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Dr.Evil


    Fell asleep last night when trying to study biology and woke up too late to study this morning..nightmare.


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    #156
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    The exam was...weird. Not too difficult but just not the usual kind of stuff.


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    #157
    Sunny!!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Sunny!!


    experimennts were rediculous imo


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    #158
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    The exam was...weird. Not too difficult but just not the usual kind of stuff.


    I dropped to ordinary this morning on the basis I knew noting basically in unit 3 and knew hardly any experiments, ordinary paper was easy, say I got a A2..B1

    FINISHED NOW W000TZER :D


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    #159
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Sunny!! wrote: »
    experimennts were rediculous imo
    forgot to ask what were they? And how were the long questions?


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    #160
    Ash_M
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Ash_M


    Thought it was nice really, I reckon I could have gotten my A1 so I'm delighted with it :)
    A lot of people giving out about the way things were worded though, seems to have caused problems? That first experiment Q was a pretty disguised way of asking the scientific method, and the 2nd one was a bit strange, but overall I thought it was nice enough. Nothing too obscure or weird :)


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    #161
    GoldFour4
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭GoldFour4


    Found some of the exam tough. Was strange there was no long question on human reproduction, photosynthesis or respiration. Short questions were nice though.


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    #162
    Platinum2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Platinum2010


    Where the F*** was my human reproduction


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    #163
    flyaway.
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    I was dead set on doing the OL paper until about five minutes before the exam. My friends talked me into doing HL and I'm SO glad they did. The paper was fine. Certainly not the disaster I had been anticipating. I was actually pleased with the experiments. But yeah, would have been kicking myself if I'd dropped down to OL.


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    #164
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Lads I really wanna know what came up, I dropped to ordinary this morning, also please tell me the experiments that came up if ya can


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    #165
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    I'm definitely in there with a B, but I don't know if the paper just threw me off and knocked me down from an A. Was so prepared for a heart or reproduction long question, scientific method totally threw me off.

    Did anyone find the ecology questions to be kind of subjective? Like there was no definitive answer, just your opinions?
    Iceboy wrote: »
    Lads I really wanna know what came up, I dropped to ordinary this morning, also please tell me the experiments that came up if ya can
    DNA, osmosis, breathing/pulse rate, all I can think of for now.


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    #166
    Platinum2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Platinum2010


    malachyscott wrote: »
    Found some of the exam tough. Was strange there was no long question on human reproduction, photosynthesis or respiration. Short questions were nice though.

    So unfair how they fudged up the paper this year , everything I studied didn't come up I was furious sitting there like a dunce I attempted all the experiments and short questions and section c too but don't think I got anywhere . Took the higher level in the end and would like to take this time to thank the sec for changing the paper this year and ****ing up my chances of going on to third level


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    #167
    AG2R
    Registered Users Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭AG2R


    I quite liked that paper


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    #168
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Did anyone know those two scientists involved with the cohesion-tension model? Real nasty question if you ask me.


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    #169
    AG2R
    Registered Users Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭AG2R


    That was nasty, I put down Arrehnuis and Bohr. Damn Chemistry >_<


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    #170
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Haha, I tried Bohr for a laugh too. According to the syllabus it's Dixon and Joly. What a horrible question to ask! :(


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    #171
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    Weird is the word,
    Exactly, not too difficult but by no means easy,
    Phrasing through me with a few questions...
    Dont want to look into it just in case...
    Paper did seem to be missing some explicit content alright :P


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    #172
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    I'm definitely in there with a B, but I don't know if the paper just threw me off and knocked me down from an A. Was so prepared for a heart or reproduction long question, scientific method totally threw me off.

    Did anyone find the ecology questions to be kind of subjective? Like there was no definitive answer, just your opinions?


    DNA, osmosis, breathing/pulse rate, all I can think of for now.

    god damn it I knew those experiments really well, cant wait to see the rest of this pape on examinations


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    #173
    Ash_M
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Ash_M


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    Did anyone know those two scientists involved with the cohesion-tension model? Real nasty question if you ask me.


    Dixon and Joly, they were two Irish lads :D


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    #174
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    Did anyone know those two scientists involved with the cohesion-tension model? Real nasty question if you ask me.

    was that part of long or short questions?


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    #175
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Iceboy wrote: »
    was that part of long or short questions?
    Long questions. One of the last ones where you could answer 2 out of 3 parts. I reckon the ear and rhizopus question will be stronger than my plant one there!


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    #176
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    Long questions. One of the last ones where you could answer 2 out of 3 parts. I reckon the ear and rhizopus question will be stronger than my plant one there!

    Ok. Did the urinary system come up?


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    #177
    hatethisfeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭hatethisfeeling


    What were the amino acids common to every protein? And when doing the genetics, since it was an incomplete dominence question, is it ok that I used r for the red flower and w for the white , or do you have to use the same letter?
    Also, where do the electrons return to at the end of the second stage of respiration?
    I think I got a B, feel sorry for the people banking on respiration and reproduction tho :(


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    #178
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    hatethisfeeling wrote: »
    What were the amino acids common to every protein? And when doing the genetics, since it was an incomplete dominence question, is it ok that I used r for the red flower and w for the white , or do you have to use the same letter?
    Also, where do the electrons return to at the end of the second stage of respiration?
    I think I got a B, feel sorry for the people banking on respiration and reproduction tho :(

    Amino acids are the basic building blocks of proteins

    not sure about the electrons one


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    #179
    hatethisfeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭hatethisfeeling


    Sorry I put that down wrong I think the question was how many amino acids are common to every protein?


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    #180
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    hatethisfeeling wrote: »
    What were the amino acids common to every protein?
    This totally got me too, because I thought proteins were composed of literally thousands of types of amino acids. I said 3 as a guess, honestly NO idea there.


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    #181
    flyaway.
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    This totally got me too, because I thought proteins were composed of literally thousands of types of amino acids. I said 3 as a guess, honestly NO idea there.

    I guessed 200. :confused: I had no idea.


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