BIO- official post discussion

<p>i think i remember a couple more that had to do with a heart diagrahm?? one was like which carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs or something like that. anyone else remember these?</p>

<p>I have Barron’s, but what does Kaplan, PR, or REAL SAT IIs say about 67-70? Ugh…my standards just keep getting lower with this test. Was there actually a codon that said (start) next to it? I think I put methionine because that’s usually the start codon for translation. Ugh.</p>

<p>Methionine was correct. 67 in the real sat’s is a 750. I don’t understand why people are using PR and Kaplan curves. It is the college board that decides the real curves…</p>

<p>Oh, really? Was methionine used twice or am I just not remembering correctly?</p>

<p>Truthsmoker, according to the real SAT book, how much is needed for a 700? Don’t the curves in that book look a little too lenient?</p>

<p>The curves in that book are the exact curves used for the bio test they gave. That means the curves were actually used for a real bio test. The only way they’d be too lenient is if the curves have gotten stricter since that test was administered, but for this test I don’t see how that would be possible… For a 700 you need a raw score of 59.</p>

<p>Wow, okay. I’ve lowered my standards to 700 then >.<</p>

<p>Does collegeboard usually tell the students what questions he or she got wrong on the sat II when they send out the score report?</p>

<p>Not if you don’t pay extra money for the detailed score report, I believe.</p>

<p>About the question for which part of the heart carries blood away, is the answer aorta or left ventricle? I put aorta, but I wasn’t sure on it.</p>

<p>the picture pointed the the aortic arch</p>

<p>and to whoever asked the methionine question, I used it twice too.</p>

<p>Another one just came to me : Was there a question about osmoregulation?</p>

<p>Might have been. Was the question ‘what mechanism regulates salt levels?’ or something like that?</p>

<p>No, I think it was the other way around, Osmoregulation is : regulation of water and ions</p>

<ol>
<li>Mendel said nothing about- crossover</li>
<li>somatic body cell of 24- 12 from each parent</li>
<li>Farm runoff- decrease in eutrophication?</li>
<li>Bacteria 5- produced toxins</li>
<li>pH 4.5 - 5.5- H+ decreasing</li>
<li>Bacteria #6- came from water</li>
<li>Really high concentrations- balanced fertilizer</li>
<li>Soil most likely to resist temp. change- wooded forests
9.Calvin Cycle- bundle sheath cells
10.Archaebacteria- similar to eukaryotes</li>
<li>Segmented seperation- annelids(earthworms)</li>
<li>light reactions equation- H2O -> O2</li>
<li>Pea genetics question- 50%</li>
<li>Wool genetics problem- 3/4</li>
<li>Cytosine- Guanine</li>
<li>Bases per Gene- 1000</li>
<li>Restriction enzyme- A</li>
<li>Bacteria- ammonia</li>
<li>Greatest Biomass- plants</li>
<li>Carbon Rocks- comes too slowly</li>
<li>Ventrel nerve cords- arthropods</li>
<li>Large intestine- watery feces</li>
<li>Evolution in populations - the one with 4, 5, 6</li>
<li>Substance causing growth - IAA</li>
<li>Identifying unknown microbe - Plants and protists</li>
<li>Mitosis diagram - III and IV</li>
<li>Coenzyme - Vitamin B12</li>
<li>Something that acts to lower activation energy - Amylase</li>
<li>Steroid that influences metabolism - Testosterone</li>
<li>Inorganic molecule that has a regulatory function - Calcium (mineral)</li>
<li>Incomplete Bacteria Conjection- determines location of genes</li>
<li>.9% Solute- swell and burst</li>
<li>Plants divide- meristem</li>
<li>Antibodies- made from lymphocytes</li>
<li>80 colonies- 80,000</li>
<li>Test cross- ttrr</li>
<li>Density Dependent factor- Disease</li>
<li>Photosynthesis reaction- Endergonic
39.13 hours of light- Plant A will grow</li>
<li>Light flash question- Answer choice E (flash at very beginning)
41.-43. Heart structure (you either know it or you don’t)</li>
<li>lactic acid in legs - due to no oxygen</li>
<li>muscle contraction - actin and myosin</li>
<li>nails/claws diversion - mammalia and carnivora</li>
<li>multiple trophic level feeding - decomposers AND omnivores</li>
<li>colony that can’t compete with bacteria 5 - bacteria 1</li>
<li>what happens to the mice coat color - avg coat color would get darker</li>
<li>imprinting, conditioning, habituation - learning</li>
<li>non poisonous animal imitating a poisonous one - mimicry</li>
<li>start codon - AUG</li>
<li>TRNA anticodon - AUU</li>
<li>stop codon - UAA</li>
<li>Osmoregulation is- regulation of water and ions </li>
</ol>

<p>debates:

  1. Colorblind Son genetics problem - 1/4 (prob of having colorblind son) or 1/2 (prob that their son will be colorblind)
  2. Pea plant problem - 250 (homozygous dom) or 500 (homo dom + homo rec)
  3. IAA plant control - 1,2,3 or 2,3
  4. Ape and early human - not brain cavity, smaller upper jaw, neural canals?
  5. 250 yr tree population- mixed deciduous forest or beech?</p>

<p>Julina, the question asked for the start codon, and “AUG (Methionine)” was an answer choice. So it didn’t give the answer away, unless you personally think start = methionine is really easy or something.</p>

<p>Edit: Oh crap, sorry. I misunderstood you… and I do think I did use AUG twice, since I remember thinking “wait, are you allowed to reuse options?”</p>

<p>Oh I see, but methioine was still an answer that was used twice, right? Sorry, this test is really scaring me.</p>

<p>yup AUG = methionine, used twice, using options multiple times is allowed</p>

<p>i dont think methionine was used twice…</p>

<p>i remember one question asked for the stop codeon (for which i put the one that said “stop” in parenthesis next to it…)</p>

<p>another asked for the anticodon- which -definately- wasnt methionine…</p>

<p>and one asked for start- which was methionine</p>

<p>there were only 3 questions and methionine definately wasnt used twice because the anticodon was like att or uaa or something with 2 of the same letter in it…</p>

<p>Hmm, I agree with impboy. I remember the first question in that set of questions asked for the start codon, and that was obviously the AUG (which even said methionine after it). And I think the second question asked for the anticodon. The anticodon may have been AUG, but I don’t remember that being it. And the third question, if I remember correctly, asked for the stop codon, and that one definitely said (“stop”) after it. Is it possible we had the same choices (methionine, stop, etc) but different questions to go along with it? I don’t know why collegeboard would do that, but you never know.</p>

<p>I remember that grouping had 4 questions: 2 with methionine, one with the STOP codon, and another random codon.</p>