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Biology Higher Level

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  • #202
    GallowsGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭GallowsGhost


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    i agree man what the hell compare this year to previous five years, its by far the hardest like hi....AHHHH i was hoping for at least an A2 id nearly settle for just the honour now !
    Personally I thought it was easier than previous years. I guess it depends on what your strong points were


  • #203
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    GallowsGhost wrote: »
    Personally I thought it was easier than previous years. I guess it depends on what your strong points were


    jaysus 2008 was a walk in the park ... without study, strasight forward Q's , good diagrams...


  • #204
    smndly
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭smndly


    If you compare the diagrams from this to the geography paper it puts it in perspective. In geo all diagrams were coloured, big and clear such as the convergent plate boundary. Compare that to the diagram of the germinating seed which looked like it took 20 seconds to do in a blunt pencil. And they want more people to take up science subjects??? HA!


  • #205
    not bakunin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭not bakunin


    never could understand hy this exam is actually allocated 10minutes more than the the history one......


    anyways, it was nice. no cock though!



    ok that sounded bad. but you get me...


  • #206
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,157 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    The fecking eye came up!! Who studied for that!

    "Why is two eyes better than one?" What kind question is that :pac:


  • #207
    MissRealist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭MissRealist


    creggy wrote: »
    The fecking eye came up!! Who studied for that!

    "Why is two eyes better than one?" What kind question is that :pac:

    Stupid one!:rolleyes:;)

    I said depth perception...


  • #208
    irishmonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭irishmonkey


    Dubs wrote: »
    ye they really went all out this year with the diagrams but you didnt need the arrows on the lungs did you?

    One was flowing into the lungs, the other was flowing out.
    I took a guess and said Pulmonery Artery..


  • #209
    celtic723
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭celtic723


    irishmonkey wrote: »
    One was flowing into the lungs, the other was flowing out.
    I took a guess and said Pulmonery Artery..

    i didn't even see the ****ing arrows!!!!!!!!!!!....those ***** have swindled 3 marks from me for their inability to put clear diagrams on the bloody exam. it's an arteriole by the way. *****


  • #210
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    celtic723 wrote: »
    i didn't even see the ****ing arrows!!!!!!!!!!!....those ***** have swindled 3 marks from me for their inability to put clear diagrams on the bloody exam. it's an arteriole by the way. *****

    Id say a good range of answers will be accepted for that pathetic diagram.


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  • #211
    celtic723
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭celtic723


    JSK 252 wrote: »
    Id say a good range of answers will be accepted for that pathetic diagram.

    i sincerely hope so..they lacked clarity by all accounts. were you caught out by it as well? or did any other diagram throw you?


  • #212
    Dubs
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭Dubs


    irishmonkey wrote: »
    One was flowing into the lungs, the other was flowing out.
    I took a guess and said Pulmonery Artery..

    oh i see it now... i dont have a clue what i said anymore


  • #213
    Secoundrow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭Secoundrow


    celtic723 wrote: »
    i didn't even see the ****ing arrows!!!!!!!!!!!....those ***** have swindled 3 marks from me for their inability to put clear diagrams on the bloody exam. it's an arteriole by the way. *****


    hey ya i didnt see the arrows either only heard bout them on boards i took a guess and said pulmonary arteriol but it always happens in biology that questions are deemed unfair and if you wrote the name of your pet dog down they have to give you the marks it happens most years on at least 1 question:D

    so if u attempted the question which was "questionable" you got full marks


  • #214
    ya-ba-da-ba-doo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    For the eye question (i didnt do it) but i laughed to myself when i saw the "why is 2 eyes better than 1" question for the laugh i was gonna write "because eyepatches are SO last year!" decided against it tho!


  • #215
    smndly
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭smndly


    can someone help me with question 1 (f) on the exam? On whether to not heat, heat or boil the Benedict's solution? I said it should be heated but not boiled. However in my biology book it says it should be boiled. But then in my ag. science book it says heat gently to 40 to 50 degrees. Ive also checked some internet sites which say heat gently too. So does anyone know what the answer is?? Im sure it probably works both if u heat it and if u boil it!!


  • #216
    GallowsGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭GallowsGhost


    smndly wrote: »
    can someone help me with question 1 (f) on the exam? On whether to not heat, heat or boil the Benedict's solution? I said it should be heated but not boiled. However in my biology book it says it should be boiled. But then in my ag. science book it says heat gently to 40 to 50 degrees. Ive also checked some internet sites which say heat gently too. So does anyone know what the answer is?? Im sure it probably works both if u heat it and if u boil it!!
    I put down "heat but not boil" as well, since when we did the experiment in class we didn't boil it. However my biology book says "To heat in a boiling water bath" which is slightly confusing wording so I'm not sure what the correct answer is.
    But I assume that if it is boil and a lot of people put down heat they'll give attempt marks.


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  • #217
    smndly
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭smndly


    Yea because i remember actually doing it in the lab and the colour had turned brick red before the water bath had started boiling so it definitely does work without boiling.


  • #218
    leesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭leesmom


    smndly wrote: »
    can someone help me with question 1 (f) on the exam? On whether to not heat, heat or boil the Benedict's solution? I said it should be heated but not boiled. However in my biology book it says it should be boiled. But then in my ag. science book it says heat gently to 40 to 50 degrees. Ive also checked some internet sites which say heat gently too. So does anyone know what the answer is?? Im sure it probably works both if u heat it and if u boil it!!
    we used a bunsen burner, so it doesnt boil it just heats


  • #219
    Secoundrow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭Secoundrow


    GallowsGhost wrote: »
    I put down "heat but not boil" as well, since when we did the experiment in class we didn't boil it. However my biology book says "To heat in a boiling water bath" which is slightly confusing wording so I'm not sure what the correct answer is.
    But I assume that if it is boil and a lot of people put down heat they'll give attempt marks.


    Yeah thats what I put down but even though the biology book says boil the exact same exp is in our ag sceince book and it says HEAT!!




    ......So im right and their wrong:D


  • #220
    Anthony16
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Anthony16


    JSK 252 wrote: »
    The general consensus is that the short questions are harder and i would agree. You had to cop on to the fact that in the plant short question there was a water source so therefore it was hydrotropism because you would say geotropism otherwise.

    This is true but if u look at d exam paper on examinations.ie u will see the water source labelled which i dont remember seein in the exam!!Guess dey will hav to accept boh.My teacher says ud be surprised by a lot of the answers they accept in the short qs anyway


  • #221
    Anthony16
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Anthony16


    leesmom wrote: »
    i said absorption for the rhizoid(X)

    absorption i think is correct.its d only function we were given 4 it anyway


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  • #222
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Anthony16 wrote: »
    absorption i think is correct.its d only function we were given 4 it anyway

    They produce enzymes which absorb the the products of extra cellular digestion


  • #223
    Anthony16
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Anthony16


    JSK 252 wrote: »
    They produce enzymes which absorb the the products of extra cellular digestion

    Isnt extracellular digestion the release of enzymes from the fungus onto the food source?The Food is then digested outside fungus and digested products are absorbed?


  • #224
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Anthony16 wrote: »
    Isnt extracellular digestion the release of enzymes from the fungus onto the food source?The Food is then digested outside fungus and digested products are absorbed?

    The '' they '' in question refers to the rhoizoid hyphae. I know where the confusion was!:pac:


  • #225
    Secoundrow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭Secoundrow


    damn are ye still argueing over this paper:rolleyes:

    I started the thread month ago and I cant remember a single question that was in the biology!:D


  • #226
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Secoundrow wrote: »
    damn are ye still argueing over this paper:rolleyes:

    I started the thread month ago and I cant remember a single question that was in the biology!:D

    Anthony16 brought it up on a quote from moi


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