CCEA AS Biology Unit 1 7th June

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  1. xxsreillyxx's Avatar
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    CCEA AS Biology Unit 1 7th June
    Plenty of time to start revision....Yes?
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  3. pursuitofhappiness's Avatar
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    any predictions for the essay q?
  4. SamCuPPles's Avatar
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    Most CPQ's have come up in the past. They've never really asked about the structure of a leaf like epidermis palisade mesophyll etc. Just look through previous exams and try and rule out what has come up before. Mitosis/meiosis question would be deadly!!!
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    Well what did everyone think??????
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    oh my god, that was so horrible
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    Well I thought it was good, so much better than January!! But I wasn't expecting Carbohydrates to be the essay, but hopefully I did better than January
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    The rest of the paper was quite challenging to make up for the simplicity of the CPQ. That's the way I see it anyway.
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    It was much better than january.
    what answers did people get for..
    1. The sex of the mouse
    2. Number of haploid chromosomes of mouse
    3. Precise stage of meiosis where there is haploid number of chromosomes
    4. And for the first question on the paper it said, structure between two adjacent plant cells, i know it is middle lamella but i wrote calcium pectate would i have got the marks?
    5. Ratio of A and B
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    The essay was a saint of a question. Thought the paper was WAY better than Jan. A few challenging ones, didn't like the meoisis questions at all. But some q's were just too easy that I think i might have got them wrong!
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    (Original post by bmalone)
    It was much better than january.
    4. And for the first question on the paper it said, structure between two adjacent plant cells, i know it is middle lamella but i wrote calcium pectate would i have got the marks?
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    Well it did ask for the structure, the middle lamella is the structure.
    The middle lamella's fuction is to hold the two adjacent plant cells together and thats why it's make of calcium pectate as it's sticky!
    Unsure if you'd get the mark for it, depends how strick the mark scheme is but i wouldnt call calcium pectate a structure
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    (Original post by pursuitofhappiness)
    Well it did ask for the structure, the middle lamella is the structure.
    The middle lamella's fuction is to hold the two adjacent plant cells together and thats why it's make of calcium pectate as it's sticky!
    Unsure if you'd get the mark for it, depends how strick the mark scheme is but i wouldnt call calcium pectate a structure
    Thats exactly what i was thinking, I hate silly mistakes.
    I meant to also ask. What was the product of the hydrolysis of cohesion, that question completely threw me.
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    (Original post by bmalone)
    It was much better than january.
    what answers did people get for..
    1. The sex of the mouse
    2. Number of haploid chromosomes of mouse
    3. Precise stage of meiosis where there is haploid number of chromosomes
    4. And for the first question on the paper it said, structure between two adjacent plant cells, i know it is middle lamella but i wrote calcium pectate would i have got the marks?
    5. Ratio of A and B
    1. I had male.
    2. I put 20, but after coming out of the exam I heard someone say the right answer was 19
    3. I guessed Telephase II.
    4. Not too sure.
    5. I think I had 1:3, although I'm not entirely sure.


    What did everyone get for the Food Test question? I had:

    A- Protein
    B- Simple Sugar/ Reducing sugar -> Glucose
    C- Complex Sugar -> Sucrose
    D- Complex Sugar -> Maltose

    (Not entirely sure if C + D are the right way around )

    Some of the paper was quite nice, the meiosis stuff was a bit meh. On a positive note, there was nothing about a colorimeter!
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    (Original post by Mosh)
    1. I had male.
    2. I put 20, but after coming out of the exam I heard someone say the right answer was 19
    3. I guessed Telephase II.
    4. Not too sure.
    5. I think I had 1:3, although I'm not entirely sure.


    What did everyone get for the Food Test question? I had:

    A- Protein
    B- Simple Sugar/ Reducing sugar -> Glucose
    C- Complex Sugar -> Sucrose
    D- Complex Sugar -> Maltose

    (Not entirely sure if C + D are the right way around )

    Some of the paper was quite nice, the meiosis stuff was a bit meh. On a positive note, there was nothing about a colorimeter!
    I got the same answers as you for the food test.
    5. I got 1:3 as well because it was a triglyceride and there was 1 glycerol with 3 fatty acids.
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    Does anyone know we're you can see the
    Aper again?? Or does anyone have it that they could post a picture I just really wanna see how I did??!!



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