BIO --- Biological Diversity ---- What did you know/memorize?

[PeterScroggins]

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For Taxonomy...

How much depth did you guys remember?

I'm reading & re-reading this chapter in Cliffs and no matter how many times, I never can remember much detail because of the insane amount of facts presented in it.

I got the D>K>P>C>O>F>G>S

But what else should I take away?

Seems so many facts about Domain prokaryotes and Domain bacteria, and then the same for each of the Eukaryote Kingdoms.

Is there maybe like a small & rememberable list of main/important things that you knew for each domain & kingdom?

Please share your strategies or thoughts when looking back on your DAT... especially in hindsight relative to the questions presented to you on the exam.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[diene]

For Taxonomy...

How much depth did you guys remember?

I'm reading & re-reading this chapter in Cliffs and no matter how many times, I never can remember much detail because of the insane amount of facts presented in it.

I got the D>K>P>C>O>F>G>S

But what else should I take away?

Seems so many facts about Domain prokaryotes and Domain bacteria, and then the same for each of the Eukaryote Kingdoms.

Is there maybe like a small & rememberable list of main/important things that you knew for each domain & kingdom?

Please share your strategies or thoughts when looking back on your DAT... especially in hindsight relative to the questions presented to you on the exam.

Thanks in advance!!

Do you have bio datqvault? They have very nice tables..definitely recommend memorizing those!

 

[Stacker]

The three domain system used to be bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotic.
I used KBB for just basic background infromation.
Arthropods have jointed appendages. Apicomplexans have organelles concentrated at an apex with flagella wrapping its body. Diatoms (red tide?) looks like sandwiches. Find out which ones are made up of SiO or calcium carbonate. Birds and mammals have four-chambered hearts. Fish have two-chambered hearts. Everything else has three-chambered hearts. Fish evolution - something about cartilage becoming bones.

 

[drill-and-fill]

LOL your quote is hilarious Stacker

As per memorizing the tables on qVault... I think that's a little over kill?

Just know the basic stuff that's in Cliff and BIO portion of Destroyer.

 

[diene]

LOL your quote is hilarious Stacker

As per memorizing the tables on qVault... I think that's a little over kill?

Just know the basic stuff that's in Cliff and BIO portion of Destroyer.

Basic stuff in Cliffs? Cliffs goes into wayyy to much detail for everything little thing.
I don't think qvautl is an over kill. All the information is organized very nicely and those are the type of questions that show up. Even if it helps you on one question on the exam, it will be worth it 🙂

hahah @ Stacker's quote.

 

[drill-and-fill]

Didn't say Qvault itself was overkill; memorizing their 'major phyla of the animal kingdom' table is an over-kill IMHO, if that's what you were referring to.

qVault BIO is a must, for sure.

 

[NDPitch]

Where are the tables for qVault? I haven't seen them yet. I've only done a couple bio tests. Are they in the explanations?

 

[PeterScroggins]

its posted on the bio page under EXHIBITS... with green links

 

[bluesprite13]

The bio section is very random. I actually got a question like, "Which species came after species X, but before species Y?" :/ I didn't bother memorizing the phylogenetic tree because I had a feeling they would only have 1-2 questions on taxonomy, which was true for my exam. I wish you the best of luck though! 🙂

 

[NDPitch]

The bio section is very random. I actually got a question like, "Which species came after species X, but before species Y?"

Ugh. That's so lame. These types of questions are just mundane details.

 

[IsaacYankem]

Throwing my 2cents in here as I took the DAT a few times back in the mid 00's. I remember they loved Cndiaria for some reason. Assuming the content is still similar, the respiratory/digestive tract differences that Cliff's mentions about the various species is important. IIRC, I had a few questions on symmetry, as in which of the following species has radial symmetry: with 5 answer choices.

That chapter has been slowing me up. But I'd recommend re-reading it a few times and see if you can't summarize it in a table of yourself.

I'm also led to believe the various nitrogen cycle bacteria are important as Cliff's questions seems to emphasize it, and the Nitrogen cycle is mentioned a few times in Kaplan's review.

Hope that helps.