todays biology

SineadSligo

well i left it around 3pm!
I moved from higher to pass just before I sat it.

Kind of regret that now!
Was still a hard old paper!!

Howd ye find it??

EdgarAllenPoo

There were some mightily accurate predictions here about what would come up. It wasn't impossible but I found some of it quite hard. I know I've at least passed it anyway.

SineadSligo

Very true actualy!!!

So has anyone any ideas on higher business and lower history for 2moro??
lol

x

angeldelight

Did the DNA experiment come up?

Cherry_Pie

WHAT A GEM!!!!!!!!

I loved the paper!!!! IT was amazing!!! DNA came up! Hurrah!!!

Shyster

yeah, pretty much everything that was predicted here came up...nothing on enzymes or vegetative propagation in the long questions though...thank god..!!
i was aiming for a high c in this paper so i wouldnt be the best at biology but to me, that paper seemed VERY do-able, bit of a bluffers paper really especially with questions 12 and 13

EdgarAllenPoo

Can anyone who remember tell me what topics were covered in section B and C.

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GDM wrote:

Can anyone who remember tell me what topics were covered in section B and C.

I am doing up the solutions Here

ok respiration,genetics,ecology,sex(male testes,contraception), viruses+lymphocytes/ bacteria/ a few more too!

Pistol Pete

Lovely paper... nice short questions, two of the very few experiments I know properly came up and genetics/respiration/ecology/reproduction made for an easy Section C.

Creamy Goodness

short questions were a bit of a joke tbh.

stevoxbx

Predicitions were spot on. Pity I didnt study at all. I knew ****in nothin at all. Just bu*lsh*t*d through the whole paper. Hope I passed.

EdgarAllenPoo

I loved the short questions, the best part of the paper, section A was quite nice and as it's something like 25% of the marks I didn't do too badly.

randombassist

That was the easiest biology paper I've EVER done. Amazing! One of the qustions (bird one) was just a reading comprehension!

the smiley one

Am really sh!ttin it - did the genetics question and really worried....argh why am I so stupid??!!! (I didn't do ecology ...grrrr)

thought it was a fair paper, rewarded work done and all that....bit surprised at the lack of human biology besides the reproduction ques(which I didn't do)....

The first question : vitamins are water - soluable or ______- soluable was laughable...hope thay don't adjust the marking scheme and make it harder to get marks!!!

Haedes1987

What the fook was with that ecology question, the answers were in the passage! Insult to our intelligence tbh

Haedes1987

My diagram of the penis was hilarious, i drew the shaft too long and ended up drawing a MASSIVE sack - bigger than a bulls this was. I also added a few pupes here and there to give life to the diagram and to show my understanding of our secondary sexual characteristics!

Cotsy

Didn't think it was as easy as ye're all makin out but i spose it was fair alright. Only noticed the reading comprehension question with 15 mins left so scribbled it down at the end bit pd off bout that! What the hell was label C in the villi short question??

Scarinae

Absolutely beautiful paper - I'm just a bit worried that, because it was so easy, it'll be hard to get an A if you know what I mean! Cos they might adjust the marking scheme!
Section A was nice, loved the fill-in-the-gaps part, that always makes me laugh!
Section B was absolutely perfect - all three experiments were ones I knew really really well, I'd say I got the full 15% there
Section C - I did Q10 (genetics), Q12 (ecology), Q13 (reproduction) and Q15 (viruses and bacteria). All topics I knew really well so I'm very happy! What was with the reading comprehension in question 12 though? I mean, they practically gave away the 27 marks - that's almost 7%!!

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Cotsy wrote:

Didn't think it was as easy as ye're all makin out but i spose it was fair alright. Only noticed the reading comprehension question with 15 mins left so scribbled it down at the end bit pd off bout that! What the hell was label C in the villi short question??

blood vessels

Haedes1987 wrote:

What the fook was with that ecology question, the answers were in the passage! Insult to our intelligence tbh

Haha yeah, that was great. Couldn't believe it.

For a horrible moment I thought.. ****.. has that dumbass given me an ordinary level paper?

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Fishie wrote:

Absolutely beautiful paper - I'm just a bit worried that, because it was so easy, it'll be hard to get an A if you know what I mean! Cos they might adjust the marking scheme!
Section A was nice, loved the fill-in-the-gaps part, that always makes me laugh!
Section B was absolutely perfect - all three experiments were ones I knew really really well, I'd say I got the full 15% there
Section C - I did Q10 (genetics), Q12 (ecology), Q13 (reproduction) and Q15 (viruses and bacteria). All topics I knew really well so I'm very happy! What was with the reading comprehension in question 12 though? I mean, they practically gave away the 27 marks - that's almost 7%!!

Am i right in thinkting, that they will end up marking the easy questions as in ecology and sex easier, and leave the others as they are, i hope this is the case, as i want that A!

Creamy Goodness

well they'll find it hard to adjust the marking scheme as it was actually printed on the paper.

Cutie18Ireland

a reading comp came up like that in our mock and we were told by our lovely teacher it wud never in a MILLON YEARS COME UP!!! lol!! i moved from honours to pass today too!! and i actually found it a bit hard!!!

sixdraw

sorry to blow the buzz for the lot of ye, but that was possibly one of the most deceiving papers you may ever get.everyone saying that they thought it was piss, I've never not got an A1 in Biology and that was a pretty tough paper. Like for example what did ye right for where testosterone is produced?

its produced in the testis!

sixdraw

ya but you've lost marks allready, the interstitial cells.
And the whole paper is riddled with this sort of accuracy

Bud!dont worry!as bob marley said!everything is going to be alright!if you check the book.the biology revision book and my biolgy skool book both said it was the testes!question was asked in our mocks!got full marks for it!ah well even if ur rite!cant do nought now

the smiley one

sixdraw wrote:

ya but you've lost marks allready, the interstitial cells.
And the whole paper is riddled with this sort of accuracy

yeah that's what I thought too, but then I looked at the marking scheme for 2004 and I thought it was a joke! V little precise accuracy needed imo for 2004.....hope it will be the same for 2005

sixdraw

the 2004 paper was quite difficult to get much work done at all so they had to give marks for very little correct info. like for the heart disection exp. you got marks for saying wear a white coat or use a cutting board

sixdraw

on this paper the questions were easy but the answers are gonna be really hard

the smiley one

damn you and your parade raining!!!!

Well wasn't really having a parade but it would be very wet by now if I was....

sixdraw

sorry to dampen the mood just seeing everyone saying it was piss easy when it wasn't.It was do-able but really hard to get a high grade in (well i think anyways, perhaps they'll mark it easy)

the smiley one

sixdraw wrote:

sorry to dampen the mood just seeing everyone saying it was piss easy when it wasn't.It was do-able but really hard to get a high grade in (well i think anyways, perhaps they'll mark it easy)

yeah defo didn't think it was piss easy, the short questions were quite basic but the long question were exactly that, LONG! just hope I did enough!!!

Creamy Goodness

well the people saying it's piss easy probably worked their back sides off and maybe just maybe their work paid dividend.

Finch*

that was the easierst biology paper i have ever seen, probably because last years on was so hard and they had a lot of complaints, i did no study at all for biology till the hour before because i only need to pass it, but now id say i got maybe a high C. the reading comprehension in ecology gave me an orgasm!

Cherry_Pie

I completely agree! I found it easy! But i worked my ass off for it!!!!!

Creamy Goodness

our teacher did a very good job at predicting what would come up in the exam.

in our mock we had respiration long question, DNA exp in section B etc etc.

the smiley one

I worked hard for that Bio paper too! Jesus! Just because I'm a bit cagy about it *shifty eyes* doesn't mean I didn't do any study!

Cherry_Pie

No one said you didn't!!! lol

Im was referring to the comments that if you found it easy you prob missed all the detail they were looking for!!

the smiley one

Cherry_Pie wrote:

No one said you didn't!!! lol

Im was referring to the comments that if you found it easy you prob missed all the detail they were looking for!!

Sorry was a bit on the defensive there....anyway, yeah that detail, grrr, scourage of our time...

Cherry_Pie

We worked! Don't stress it!! Im sure all he was referring to was if you thought it was a wafflers paper you were mislead! If you worked the "detail" kinna comes as a standard part of your answer because you're not WAFFLING!! :eek:

P O'Neill

It was grand! I went in expecting to fail and now I think I got around a C!

sixdraw

ques 11(b) (i) i'd love to know wtf they're asking in this ques. The oxygen debt one.how is the debt repaid?

the smiley one

sixdraw wrote:

ques 11(b) (i) i'd love to know wtf they're asking in this ques. The oxygen debt one.how is the debt repaid?

by deeper and more frequent breathing - inhalation - air - oxyegen to parts of the body that need it - debt-free

That's what I said anyway...kinda out on a limb...

sixdraw

ya i was thinking along those lines but since when did Biology become a business exam. could there be an argument there for muscle cramp as another way of the debt being paid....I wonder

Flamingfud

the smiley one wrote:

by deeper and more frequent breathing - inhalation - air - oxyegen to parts of the body that need it - debt-free

That's what I said anyway...kinda out on a limb...

Almost......well no.

lactic acid builds up as a result of anaerobic respiration in the muscles. This lactic acid must then be converted to a safer (i.e non-cramp causing) substance. It is transported to the liver, where this transformation takes places. However, this transformation requires even MORE oxygen than aerobic oxygen in the first place....thus creating the 'oxygen debt'.....i.e more oxygen must be 'repaid' to the body, than would have initially been needed. That's why the human body can't survive by anaerobic respiration alone. that and the fact it's ****tily-inefficent


*I must add that this is not actually in my Biology book, and I only know it thanks to Mr.Burke o' Leeson St. You god.

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sixdraw wrote:

ya i was thinking along those lines but since when did Biology become a business exam. could there be an argument there for muscle cramp as another way of the debt being paid....I wonder

cramp i sthe key word all right!

sixdraw

yes but if no oxygen is available lactic acid builds up even further causing more severe cramp.its like a vicious circle

I'm annoyed with myself for messing up a small part of question .. 14? i think

About the musculoskeletal disorders.. is anaemia a musculoskeletal disorder?

I realise now that they were after arthritis, but at the time all i could think of was anaemia (which is sort of to do with bones and bone marrow.. )

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<Jonny> wrote:

I'm annoyed with myself for messing up a small part of question .. 14? i think

About the musculoskeletal disorders.. is anaemia a musculoskeletal disorder?

I realise now that they were after arthritis, but at the time all i could think of was anaemia (which is sort of to do with bones and bone marrow.. )

I did osteoperhosis

i think thats what they were looking for


or osteorithis/rheumotid arthritis (both spelled wrong)

Creamy Goodness

for that muscloskeletal disorder could you use Ricketts as a disorder?