Science TR071

Jammyc · 01-05-2011 09:00PM

For Infection and Immunity, does anyone have any suggestions for a good kind of overview of cytokines, as in which cells secrete what in response to what and that activates?

01-05-2011 10:29PM

Anyone know where Wilson's stuff for vertebrate form and function is? Can't even remember what those lectures were about, but he's on the timetable...

Jammyc · 02-05-2011 09:22AM

true-or-false wrote: »

Anyone know where Wilson's stuff for vertebrate form and function is? Can't even remember what those lectures were about, but he's on the timetable...

IIRC there are no notes, he just lectured while putting up the odd image!

celtic723 · 02-05-2011 12:35PM

What we all got ready for tomorrow then?

I'm going with the cell cycle, cytoskeleton, DNA & Protein Synthesis, and Enzymes.

Jammyc · 02-05-2011 12:49PM

I've got enzymes, cell signalling, cytoskeleton and going to revise the cell cycle now! Trying to do some chem today aswell for Thursday!

amacachi · 02-05-2011 01:23PM

Pity there's just the one past paper to go on, the two things I thought would come up both came up last year.

Jammyc · 02-05-2011 02:02PM

amacachi wrote: »

Pity there's just the one past paper to go on, the two things I thought would come up both came up last year.

Go back through the years. The Biology papers before are generally just 2/3 papers put together. Biology 1 Paper 1, section 1 is BY2201 as far as I can see.

amacachi · 02-05-2011 02:33PM

Jammyc wrote: »

Go back through the years. The Biology papers before are generally just 2/3 papers put together. Biology 1 Paper 1, section 1 is BY2201 as far as I can see.

Yeah I just didn't want to acknowledge that and admit how fcuked I am. :P

02-05-2011 03:05PM

I've only got the cytoskeleton done :eek: I think I'll hedge my bets on spending the rest of the day studying for the competitive inhibition question. If it doesn't come up I'll just fake my own death mid exam. Don't know what it would accomplish, but hey, why not.

celtic723 · 02-05-2011 03:07PM

Just looking through the papers for tomorrow's exam and Eukaryotic Cell lecture for Emma's stuff comes up almost every year.

On another note can anyone tell me what Emma's Question on schols was last year? Not this years paper but the previous one.

If it was based on the eukaryotic cell then it'll be obvious what's coming up this year for our exam.

02-05-2011 03:14PM

I haven't looked at enough of her stuff to know which question belongs to whom, but the compulsory q 2009/10 was on SNAP and SNARE proteins. The two optional ones were about neurotransmitters and the proteins in thermophilic bacteria. Doesn't make much sense to me...

celtic723 · 02-05-2011 03:23PM

true-or-false wrote: »

I haven't looked at enough of her stuff to know which question belongs to whom, but the compulsory q 2009/10 was on SNAP and SNARE proteins. The two optional ones were about neurotransmitters and the proteins in thermophilic bacteria. Doesn't make much sense to me...

i think i understand how this works now.

Thanks for that.

The SNARE proteins one is Emma's lecture on the Eukaryotic Cell.

Eukaryotic Cell last year Schols Q, and Eukaryotic Cell last years summer Q
Cytoskeleton this years schols Q, ...............this years summer Q.

It's a stab in the dark.:cool:

Craguls · 02-05-2011 04:01PM

I've Cell Signalling, Proteins and Enzymes covered. I keep reading my notes over and over but I'm still kinda nervous.

Best of luck everyone!

amacachi · 02-05-2011 09:45PM

Really wish I'd started on this more than 11 hours before the first exam. That's if I start now.

Good luck everyone.

amacachi · 03-05-2011 11:53AM

How'd everyone find that?

I was unlucky with what came up but I think I may have scraped up to the compensation mark anyway. I hope.

Jammyc · 03-05-2011 12:24PM

Cell Signaling was lovely. Enzyme Kinetics wasn't great, but I gave it a go!

Also, goddamn B.C. chem marks making a semester of hard work on lab reports look mediocre!

celtic723 · 03-05-2011 01:22PM

Was good i thought. The Q on Cell Cycle was very generous.

Wasn't very happy with the enzyme one to be honest. Was counting on that derivation for competitive inhibition. Got the majority of the reaction scheme and rate equations but made an absolute pigs ear of one of them.

Instead of putting Beta over vmax i put Sbeta/1. It makes absolutely no sense and for that reason alone i'm putting it down to exam pressure.

Oh please be nice mr corrector.:(

Craguls · 03-05-2011 02:09PM

celtic723 wrote: »

Was good i thought. The Q on Cell Cycle was very generous.

Wasn't very happy with the enzyme one to be honest. Was counting on that derivation for competitive inhibition. Got the majority of the reaction scheme and rate equations but made an absolute pigs ear of one of them.

Instead of putting Beta over vmax i put Sbeta/1. It makes absolutely no sense and for that reason alone i'm putting it down to exam pressure.

Oh please be nice mr corrector.:(

How were your graphs snd schemes? I say if you have them ok you should be ok. I messed up the reciprical exquations as well since I paniced but overall the exam was ok. Maybe he won't crucify us? :P.

I liked my Cell singalling essay but made a small blip towards the end. Again shouldn't cost me too much since it shoudl work the same way.

All in all could've been much worse.

celtic723 · 03-05-2011 04:14PM

Craguls wrote: »

How were your graphs snd schemes? I say if you have them ok you should be ok. I messed up the reciprical exquations as well since I paniced but overall the exam was ok. Maybe he won't crucify us? :P.

I liked my Cell singalling essay but made a small blip towards the end. Again shouldn't cost me too much since it shoudl work the same way.

All in all could've been much worse.

Graphs were correct i know that. Schemes were correct aswell apart from one stupid reversible arrow set i put in between the EI and ESI complexes.

He seems like a nice guy so hopefully once he sees you've made the effort to learn what he's given you and you've used the information to answer his question you'll get the marks.

What about Vertebrate Form & Function people?

Who do we think will get an essay Q?

amacachi · 05-05-2011 11:31AM

Short questions properly fcuked me. Got up to compensation level I think but it leaves me no margin for error for the rest of the exams.

moloneco · 05-05-2011 04:49PM

Made a huge mistake in this exam, studied macromolecules in great detail and was looking for an essay on, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids or nucleic acids and when i seen no title with them i did the features of life essay. But i was just told today there was an essay on polymers! i completly missed that and i know everything about polymers! the rest of the exam was a disaster as well and i don't think i passed, can't believe i missed that topic cause if i did an essay on it i would have passed for sure

celtic723 · 05-05-2011 06:42PM

Interesting day to say the least.

I just want to say that I love Ái.....lly. What a legend she is. Absolute peach of a question she put on the exam and really allowed us to runaway with it.

Chemistry.....

What is there to say about that exam? Well one thing's for sure.... That subject is absolutely bollox. Probably the most irritating, tiresome, and downright cumbersome subject in the field of science.

The exam could not have gone any worse if i'm honest. A certain Carbohydrate man may well have saved my ass from failing. Other than that there really is no other positives to take from that exam, other than the fact that i'm delighted i've not got an aptitute for the subject because it genuinely is a load of absolute garbage.

Then there's the whole marking system for the write ups and that BC thing... Let's not go there.

05-05-2011 10:12PM

Can't believe how hard chem was, ridiculous!

I definitely see supplementals in my future...

danishidiot · 06-05-2011 08:33AM

Haven't been here in awhile...

I agree with chem, total rubbish. I could barely string a coherent answer together. I'll almost certainly be repeating that bad boy.

So micro opinions? I'm thinking herpes, Russell and genetic switches (don't ask why).

Craguls · 06-05-2011 08:47AM

While chemistry certainly knocked my confidence I'm hoping I'll scrape through on the labs, Scanlan and the parts of Drapers stuff I could answer. Still hoping I can redeem myself in the second paper. Everyone seems to agree it was a disgusting paper, so given the exams are marked on a bell curve we might all get lucky. If not I reckon I made it to the compensation zone anyway.

Physiology on the other hand went well, I think I was the only person who did the second question! I just related everything to digestion and how the GI tract is regional specified to maximise digestion. Short questions went ok too actually.

Micro? My lackluster MCQ result has me worried so I'm doing Yeast, Bacterial Cell Wall Structures, Viruses and Immunology. I liked genetic switches but I could never string together a decent answer on them.

NeuroCat · 06-05-2011 10:29AM

I was a bit saddened by the Physiology paper, was hoping Á might have thrown down a respiration question. I was tempted to do the question on homeostasis but I really didn't think I could write too much on it. Ended up doing the myelination vs. non-myelination question. Think it went alright.

Short questions were horrible for me. Just hoping the rest of the biology modules go according to plan lol.

danishidiot · 06-05-2011 06:44PM

Ok so I'm thinking a question might be up on fimbriae in E. coli for Dorman because its never been on before? Although its never been on so it might not ever be on..... uh oh.

Any opinions on this?

celtic723 · 06-05-2011 07:08PM

danishidiot wrote: »

Ok so I'm thinking a question might be up on fimbriae in E. coli for Dorman because its never been on before? Although its never been on so it might not ever be on..... uh oh.

Any opinions on this?

MAT locus for Bond, and Herpes/T4 for Foster.

NeuroCat · 06-05-2011 08:14PM

I'm not covering Dormans lectures for this exam so I couldn't possibly speculate. I'm just praying Bacteriophage t4 comes up in some shape or form. With Microbiology being my lowest C.A result I fear I may be back in August for the supplementals if tomorrow doesn't go to plan.

celtic723 · 06-05-2011 08:32PM

NeuroCat wrote: »

I'm not covering Dormans lectures for this exam so I couldn't possibly speculate. I'm just praying Bacteriophage t4 comes up in some shape or form. With Microbiology being my lowest C.A result I fear I may be back in August for the supplementals if tomorrow doesn't go to plan.

It's my favourite module and if i can give you any advice is that you should just give your answer in a concise form that answers the question. I found last year anyway that the micro exam was more precise and looks for more of a direct answer as oppose to physiology that allows you roam within reason of course.

I'm hoping that Herpes comes up myself.

That and the MAT locus. IF i turn that paper over tomorrow and the yeast question is on genetic analysis i might just die.

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