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****ty, just plain ****ty. What did y'all think about it? I can't believe how crappy that test was. All the stuff I studied....I might as well not have studied with the way the test was made. There would be no difference in scores.
Few quick things about specific questions:
1. The question about a gene increasing in frequency, and a chart was given. I believe the question was "when does the Heterozygote frequency increase most...." or something like that. I don't even remember what I picked, but what was the answer?
2. The thing about a parachute dropping something to a bunch of hikers on ground. The plane is going 100 m/s and is 500m above ground. What horizontal distance should they be away from the hikers to make sure that the package falls within their reach? I guessed--500m. What the hell was that?
3. Insulin most likely looks like--oxytocin, epinephrine, cortisol and something else. I picked Epi b/c I assumed it was a peptide hormone and works through second messenger much like Epi. Is that even right?
4. Why does something in water travel faster than in air? I picked the answer about how water molecules are closer together, and air molecules are further apart. Is that right?
5. The whole diarrhoea passage! EEK! Was that a bacteria or was it a virus?? I picked Parasitic Animal (b/c it lived in the villi of the intestines and replicated there..therefore, it was parasitic.) Also, the RNA transcript found in it....did it belong to the bacteria or a virus within it?? I picked the latter b/c when gene sequences were compared across different species of that bacteria, nothing was found in common. Therefore, it would have to be a virus. Plus, they said that cell wall antibiotics didn't work on it...which means resistance could be conferred upon the bacteria by the virus.
I hope I have this right.
Please...help me calm my fears! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
Few quick things about specific questions:
1. The question about a gene increasing in frequency, and a chart was given. I believe the question was "when does the Heterozygote frequency increase most...." or something like that. I don't even remember what I picked, but what was the answer?
2. The thing about a parachute dropping something to a bunch of hikers on ground. The plane is going 100 m/s and is 500m above ground. What horizontal distance should they be away from the hikers to make sure that the package falls within their reach? I guessed--500m. What the hell was that?
3. Insulin most likely looks like--oxytocin, epinephrine, cortisol and something else. I picked Epi b/c I assumed it was a peptide hormone and works through second messenger much like Epi. Is that even right?
4. Why does something in water travel faster than in air? I picked the answer about how water molecules are closer together, and air molecules are further apart. Is that right?
5. The whole diarrhoea passage! EEK! Was that a bacteria or was it a virus?? I picked Parasitic Animal (b/c it lived in the villi of the intestines and replicated there..therefore, it was parasitic.) Also, the RNA transcript found in it....did it belong to the bacteria or a virus within it?? I picked the latter b/c when gene sequences were compared across different species of that bacteria, nothing was found in common. Therefore, it would have to be a virus. Plus, they said that cell wall antibiotics didn't work on it...which means resistance could be conferred upon the bacteria by the virus.
I hope I have this right.
Please...help me calm my fears! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />