How was biology?

dmccaff

Just out, actually thought it was an alright paper. Didnt expect respiration to come up again. Also, at the ecology experiment I went completely blank couldnt remember.

A fair paper but.

Erica-smiley

I thought the whole thing was horrible.... Thought the questions were kind of weird and off-puttin!
Its a good thing I'm counting bio as my 7th subject!:D

Blitz17

Thought i done great , Came out nd a fella asked to take pictures for the examiner

Jumped at d opportunity haha

m-i-t-s-u-k-o

Would've been a lovely paper if I'd actually opened a book yesterday

22diamonds

I was delighted! I knew that digestion and enzymes were tipped to come up. But wasn't it weird how photosynthesis and genetics were put together? Thank god i looked over ecology expts this morning!!

Blitz17

m-i-t-s-u-k-o wrote: »

Would've been a lovely paper if I'd actually opened a book yesterday

Was a lovely paper for me, and i never opened a book for the year, nd barely went to class :D

Whoop Whoop

oleary91

I dropped down to pass:D

ciaranajl

Anyone want to write solutions to the genetics questions once the exams come online? (examinations.ie)

emmie-lou

oh god it was horrible...that will teach me not 2 study but no more worrying about it till the results in august!

Kennym_27

Why would you want the soloutions? To make you feel worse if you got some of the questions wrong?
I'm fairly happy with it, thought the short questions were a bit iffy and ended up leaving out the photosynthesis. Wasnt a lot on it But yeah, hopefully a C3!

mike-gunners

Biology Paper Was P*ss easy.I answered every single question in the exam and by that i
mean every question from section A, B and C

JC06

Thought it was ok, hopefully better than the mock! Some of the short questions were horrible like that neuron one Didn't really like the digestion question but I had to do it! The ecology question was good though

tute08

Sweet as a nut! Did every question on the paper! One or two of them had funny wording, but generally it was easy!

GLaDOS

Thought it was grand. Answered everything, though my ecology experiment was poor. Hopfully an A

MattD

Pretty much the best paper that i could have hoped for, with excretion, digestion, bacteria and photosynthesis coming up in the long questions, as well as the usuals - Ecology and Genetics.


I was very happy and may have scraped an A

Mars Bar

Loved it! Didn't like the experiments though, took me a while to do the IAA one and I'm not sure I did the right one for the Enzyme experiment but it's over now. I loved the genetics question. 'Twas bootiful!

tabouli

mars bar wrote: »

Loved it! Didn't like the experiments though, took me a while to do the IAA one and I'm not sure I did the right one for the Enzyme experiment but it's over now. I loved the genetics question. 'Twas bootiful!

+1, I thought it was pretty good, loved the genetics and digestion questions. Got confused with the enzyme and ecology exps though, and I thought the virus question about the rabbits was particularly weird. But overall, nice enough.

Riverperson

Oh thank you Leaving Cert god, that was one lovely paper. I think it's my 1st A1.
I'm so happy...shame I have german tomorrow. *cry*

nairy-hipples

i loved the paper!! cud answer all of section A without a hitch!! did every question on the paper. im afraid to jinx it but im hoping to get an A! better then my D1 in the mocks, tho i put a lot of work in since then and we hadnt finished the course by the time of the mocks!!

Mars Bar

I thought the way they asked some of the questions was a bit odd too. what was with the CO2 and Urea and what they are derived from? didn't make any sense...

ciaranajl

Kennym_27 wrote: »

Why would you want the soloutions? To make you feel worse if you got some of the questions wrong?
I'm fairly happy with it, thought the short questions were a bit iffy and ended up leaving out the photosynthesis. Wasnt a lot on it But yeah, hopefully a C3!

Nah, I think I got it right, but not positive, so wanna know.

christine_90

Yeah i quite liked it. I loved the genetic crosses long question! Hopefully got a B1 or an A.

Riotguy

mars bar wrote: »

I thought the way they asked some of the questions was a bit odd too. what was with the CO2 and Urea and what they are derived from? didn't make any sense...

Yeah that was a pretty abstract question..

I just answered that Urea was derived from Amino Acids and CO2 from Water.

1huge1

oleary91 wrote: »

I dropped down to pass:D

I almost did that this morning I was so nervous going in, so glad I didnt now, the honours paper was quiet nice and I definitely passed it.

Fitzo

Lot harder than I expected.

Especially the short answers.

1huge1

mars bar wrote: »

I thought the way they asked some of the questions was a bit odd too. what was with the CO2 and Urea and what they are derived from? didn't make any sense...

I said urea came from amino acids and describer how it went from amino acids to amnonia to urea... not a clue on Co2, said oxygen (possibly the worst answer I put down in the whole lc!)

MattD

I just said urea came from ammonia and CO2 came from Carbohydrates.

Meh, i dont care. Itsall over now sure

Boink08

Can anyone confirm the answers to the questions on the little "comprehension" thing on part (b) of question 15? I would think I got them all right but I just want to be sure because the answers for these are kind of unclear. In shorthand the questions were:

i. why was the rabbit population decimated when the virus first came
ii. reason why virus is no longer threat
iii. one advantage and disadvantage of biological controls
iv. will HIV be less serious for humans in future and why
v. how virus replicates (no need for this one as it's outlined clearly in textbooks etc.)

superLeetive

Thought it was a grand paper for anyone that actually did a bit of study. I only did a bit of crammin' last nite though but hoping for a B3. Did all the long Qs but skipped a few bits. Short Q were pretty hard. Loved the genetics Q though - wouldn't usually go for it but it was probably my best Q as once you listened when you did genetics in class it was quite easy.

daithi_student

Boink08 wrote: »

Can anyone confirm the answers to the questions on the little "comprehension" thing on part (b) of question 15? I would think I got them all right but I just want to be sure because the answers for these are kind of unclear. In shorthand the questions were:

i. why was the rabbit population decimated when the virus first came
ii. reason why virus is no longer threat
iii. one advantage and disadvantage of biological controls
iv. will HIV be less serious for humans in future and why
v. how virus replicates (no need for this one as it's outlined clearly in textbooks etc.)

i.the rabbit pop. was decimated because they had never encountered this disease before and therefore had no antibodies to combat it.
ii.The antibodies were produced after being exposed to the virus
iii.advantage-not releasing chemicals into the ecosystem
disadvantage-cannot control organism after releasing it.
iv.No HIV will not be less serious because the virus mutates to quickly for us to produce effective antibodies.

I LOVED THAT PAPER!!!!!:D

superLeetive

Boink08 wrote: »

Can anyone confirm the answers to the questions on the little "comprehension" thing on part (b) of question 15? I would think I got them all right but I just want to be sure because the answers for these are kind of unclear. In shorthand the questions were:

i. why was the rabbit population decimated when the virus first came
ii. reason why virus is no longer threat
iii. one advantage and disadvantage of biological controls
iv. will HIV be less serious for humans in future and why
v. how virus replicates (no need for this one as it's outlined clearly in textbooks etc.)

I said:

i) As the rabbits hadn't encountered the virus before so had no anti-bodies developed to fight the virus.
ii) The rabbits developed the necessary anti-bodies.
iii) Advantage: prevents overpopulation of a species
Disadvantage: just waffled on about how the species may start to decline in numbers and eventually become extinct.
iv) This Q was about whether you would expect HIV in humans to follow the same pattern as Myxo... in rabbits. I said that I wouldn't because HIV attacks the immune system and so humans wouldn't be able to produce anti-bodies against it as the rabbits did against myxoc...

Probably wrong though as did it last in hurry.