OCTOBER SAT Subject Test: Biology E/M

<p>actually, the man had O POSITIVE blood.
so i put O negative was unlikely since O blood doesnt have antigens and therefore…cant really be negative. but i might/probably am wrong.</p>

<p>The answer for the blood question was AB. the man can have a O- child since the Rh+ antigen is dominant, so the man can have O+O- type blood and have a child with someone with O+O- blood (for example). He can’t have a child with AB because he can’t pass the allele for either A or B to his children.</p>

<p>ohh ok, yeah you’re right.
sigh. 4 wrong for me so far. :[</p>

<p>wait a sec…
referring to what owner said on the bottom of page 5, I thought that the answer was all of them: conjugation,transduction, and transformation. (I,II,III)</p>

<p>I believe this was the only question of that type that was I,II,III
all others were I,II or I,III.</p>

<p>Omg, does the ecology really have the better curve? That sucks for me, because I heard that the molecular has the bigger curve, so I took it, even though I am better at ecology. Sigh.</p>

<p>I put conjugation only…
I remembered reading somewhere that transformation rarely occurs naturally and usually occurs in lab settings.
Also, I think the question said something about how bacteria naturally undergo sexual reproduction. Wouldn’t transduction, DNA transfer through viruses, be accidentally and not natural?</p>

<p>i plan to take the subject bio in December. i’d like to score 700+ so I probably need a book. do you guys recommend a particular prep book (like PR) or would something as light as sparknotes be ok? the test seems pretty detailed though. i took regular bio 2 years ago so i don’t remember everything. </p>

<p>thank you</p>

<p>i put conjugation because i thought the question asked about how bacterias transmit genetic info between each other…</p>

<p>I remember plasmodesmata</p>

<p>there were 2 questions which had to do with energy transfer between levels. one was like if there was 10,000 in the first what would the fourth(?) level have. Dont remember the other question but the answer was that the primary consumer would gain 90% of the energy from the producer or something along those lines.</p>

<p>I don’t know my scores yet but here’s how I prepared for the bio AP and bio SAT II subject test (btw, I got a 5 on the AP test):</p>

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<p>I put conjugation and transduction for that question.</p>

<p>owner: the trophic level pyramid answer was 10, as 10% gets passed on each level</p>

<p>god!. it was hard…
what about the 1st question…did anyone put the sympatric one?</p>

<p>I’m kinda scared about this test, and am debating cancelling. So i took the Bio M test in June 07, but didn’t get what I wanted score-wise. So I took it again. If I did worse, how bad would that look?</p>

<p>i didnt use sympatric for any of the first three… </p>

<p>what do u guys think 7 wrong and 1 omit would be??</p>

<p>For all of those who are considering canceling…don’t.
Unless you are seniors this year, you should read about score choice, which alllows you to select which scores you want to send to colleges,</p>

<p>-and I think 7 wrong and 1 omit on this test would be around a 750? but im not sure</p>

<p>Can someone please tell me about the yeast questions and galactoside questions…
a) Why is it adventageous to the E.coli
b)When is RNA inhibition before or after the removal of lactose(or something like that…)
c)The mutation was in the DNA right?
d) Was the slope of one of the questions inversely proportional?</p>

<p>also for the question about the frog excreation, I thought it was that frogs excrete urea because they have simple lungs and cannot retain ammonia like tadpoles can…</p>

<p>i put conjugation only…
hmm, what about “Which one is most correct about DNA” (or something similar to that)?
-a gene can have only 2 alleles
-most DNA makes structural proteins
-three other choices i can’t recall…</p>

<p>The answer to that one was that most human genes are not specific to the human genome.</p>

<p>I got that one wrong I “accidentally” put that most human genes have 2 alleles</p>

<p>Can you guys list as many questions from the core 60 as you can remember?</p>

<p>davezhan, thanks :D</p>