[This Honest]

(Original post by .snowflake.)
spent this afternoon doing some of my AS cwk because i couldnt be asked to revise. I wish my centre put us in for the other option offered by Edexcel

AS cw >> A2 cw

[.snowflake.]

(Original post by This Honest)
AS cw >> A2 cw

Nah A2>>AS, because i had more of a choice. My AS is 'Is using unpasteurised milk to make cheese safe?'

[This Honest]

(Original post by .snowflake.)
Nah A2>>AS, because i had more of a choice. My AS is 'Is using unpasteurised milk to make cheese safe?'

I had more of a choice at AS than A2
AS was about OCD and was interesting
A2 about plants and light

[.snowflake.]

(Original post by This Honest)
I had more of a choice at AS than A2
AS was about OCD and was interesting
A2 about plants and light

I really,really wanted to do Synaesthesia, but had no idea what to do with it. doing it as a issue report at AS would have been difficult because afaik theres no cure, and its something we don't tend to seek a cure for.

[This Honest]

(Original post by .snowflake.)
I really,really wanted to do Synaesthesia, but had no idea what to do with it. doing it as a issue report at AS would have been difficult because afaik theres no cure, and its something we don't tend to seek a cure for.

what's synaesthesia about

[.snowflake.]

(Original post by This Honest)
what's synaesthesia about

some people have it where numbers and/or letters are coloured, where words taste of things. Basically 'In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored,[7][8] while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.[9][10] In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).[11][12][13] Yet another recently identified type, visual motion → sound synesthesia, involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion and flicker.'

I have this one: lexical → gustatory synesthesia, individual words and the phonemes of spoken language evoke taste sensations in the mouth. Which is always fun when letters with umlauts taste like licquorice, yet you hate the stuff. If you've one type of synaesthesia, you've usually got another

[This Honest]

(Original post by .snowflake.)
some people have it where numbers and/or letters are coloured, where words taste of things. Basically 'In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored,[7][8] while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.[9][10] In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).[11][12][13] Yet another recently identified type, visual motion → sound synesthesia, involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion and flicker.'

I have this one: lexical → gustatory synesthesia, individual words and the phonemes of spoken language evoke taste sensations in the mouth. Which is always fun when letters with umlauts taste like licquorice, yet you hate the stuff. If you've one type of synaesthesia, you've usually got another

oooo that's cool.
Sounds very interesting
not sure if i have it though

[avataraang]

Hey guys!

Anybody got any ideas on the area: MEDIA AND EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION?
Apart from calculating BMI, I cannot see anything else that they can ask from this...
We haven't learnt about attractiveness in females so I doubt that will come up

[chocobiz]

hey
did anyone come across this website ?
http://edexcelbiosolutions.com/
it seems very useful for unit 5 article..
and does anyone have this pdf file ?

[Cetacea]

(Original post by avataraang)
Hey guys!

Anybody got any ideas on the area: MEDIA AND EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION?
Apart from calculating BMI, I cannot see anything else that they can ask from this...
We haven't learnt about attractiveness in females so I doubt that will come up

I know what you're saying. It doesn't seem to be a section they can really ask a lot about. Maybe BMI, maybe natural selection/species survival? You never know maybe they will ask about attractiveness!

[africananimals]

(Original post by chocobiz)
hey
did anyone come across this website ?
http://edexcelbiosolutions.com/
it seems very useful for unit 5 article..
and does anyone have this pdf file ?

Hi there! I have seen it before but they want 30 EURO for it!!! Rip off! I guess we will have to wait till someone downloads it lol! :P

[sanjeevp]

(Original post by avataraang)
Hey guys!

Anybody got any ideas on the area: MEDIA AND EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION?
Apart from calculating BMI, I cannot see anything else that they can ask from this...
We haven't learnt about attractiveness in females so I doubt that will come up

LOL ¬.¬


Heres my ideas, would appreciate people to get some answers for these back


What causes brown adipose tissue to be activated by the cold? (Para 1)

What causes obesity? (Para 2)

Correlation vs Causation.. (Para 3)

WAT is strongly correlated but what other factors cause heart disease and cancers? (Para 3)

What part of the brain is linked with eating disorders? (Para 6-8)

How is a fMRI carried out and what does it show? (Para 8)

How are the PFC and amygdala "significantly activated"? (Para 12)

What effect does the media have on visual perception? (Para 15)

Exposure to high levels of cortisol can mean higher blood pressure, how does this affect formation of atheromas/atherosclerosis occuring? (Para 18)

Suggest reasons why some people believe animal testing is wrong (Para 19)

BAT contains lipids, draw the structure of the fatty acid triglyceride (Para 28)

Explain why long distance runners would have more brown fat cells (Para 28)

Compare the Nervous system with the hormonal system within humans (Para 29)

Explain how the sympathetic nervous system responds to cold temperatures (homeostasis) (Para 29)

Explain the clinical trial steps leading up to drugs being available for administration to make sure there are no severe side effects(Para 36)

Explain how a gene is expressed (Para 40)

suggest ethical reasons against the use of embryonic stem cells (Para 41)

Explain how stem cells differentiate to become specialised cells (Para 41)

How are proteins synthesised? (Para 45)

Describe how individuals are more susceptible to diseases due to genetics? (Para 46)

Describe how HIV/AIDs develops when heterosexually contracted (Para 52)

Possible question on media bias...

[africananimals]

(Original post by sanjeevp)
LOL ¬.¬


Heres my ideas, would appreciate people to get some answers for these back


What causes brown adipose tissue to be activated by the cold? (Para 1)

What causes obesity? (Para 2)

Correlation vs Causation.. (Para 3)

WAT is strongly correlated but what other factors cause heart disease and cancers? (Para 3)

What part of the brain is linked with eating disorders? (Para 6-8)

How is a fMRI carried out and what does it show? (Para 8)

How are the PFC and amygdala "significantly activated"? (Para 12)

What effect does the media have on visual perception? (Para 15)

Exposure to high levels of cortisol can mean higher blood pressure, how does this affect formation of atheromas/atherosclerosis occuring? (Para 18)

Suggest reasons why some people believe animal testing is wrong (Para 19)

BAT contains lipids, draw the structure of the fatty acid triglyceride (Para 28)

Explain why long distance runners would have more brown fat cells (Para 28)

Compare the Nervous system with the hormonal system within humans (Para 29)

Explain how the sympathetic nervous system responds to cold temperatures (homeostasis) (Para 29)

Explain the clinical trial steps leading up to drugs being available for administration to make sure there are no severe side effects(Para 36)

Explain how a gene is expressed (Para 40)

suggest ethical reasons against the use of embryonic stem cells (Para 41)

Explain how stem cells differentiate to become specialised cells (Para 41)

How are proteins synthesised? (Para 45)

Describe how individuals are more susceptible to diseases due to genetics? (Para 46)

Describe how HIV/AIDs develops when heterosexually contracted (Para 52)

Possible question on media bias...

Fantastic! Thanks so much for this! Its great that we can start to see a pattern of questions emerging now
ps: I will get back to you on the answers, let me write out and then answer them

[iesians]

im kinda freaked out by the article ! anyone has any tips no how to ace this !

[sanjeevp]

(Original post by africananimals)
Fantastic! Thanks so much for this! Its great that we can start to see a pattern of questions emerging now
ps: I will get back to you on the answers, let me write out and then answer them

Some of the questions are a bit weird, hope you can understand them and get the general route the questions take in terms of the topic

[TheZzeino]

(Original post by .snowflake.)
Nah A2>>AS, because i had more of a choice. My AS is 'Is using unpasteurised milk to make cheese safe?'

Hey Man what's this coursework you guys talking about? I live in Germany and I'm home studying, I've never heard or done coursework before not even when I was in school? Can you guys give me a Heads up

[.snowflake.]

(Original post by TheZzeino)
Hey Man what's this coursework you guys talking about? I live in Germany and I'm home studying, I've never heard or done coursework before not even when I was in school? Can you guys give me a Heads up

I'll take it you're an international candidate, so you sit a written paper for both unit 3 and 6 (I think. I know this is the case for Edexcel chemistry), whilst candidates based in the UK, do coursework.

[TheZzeino]

Hey Guys, I kinda need some backup with Ethical questions and how to answer them and train for them, can anyone help me out? Oh, and can some one give me their complete study/revision schedule, just to check out if I'm actually dedicating some good time for these Subjects. I know this is to much to ask but I could really use the Lift

[TheZzeino]

(Original post by .snowflake.)
I'll take it you're an international candidate, so you sit a written paper for both unit 3 and 6 (I think. I know this is the case for Edexcel chemistry), whilst candidates based in the UK, do coursework.

Actually I just do Unit 4, 5 and yeah Unit 6 written for both A2 Bio and A2 Physics. But, like if this coursework is useful then I could use one of them ! So what's the difference then, and I'm Canadian but I still haven't done coursework before?

[TheZzeino]

I found these good questions thought I'd share them

1. What do you understand by behavioural epigenetic influences?
2. What are regulatory regions of DNA?
3. Can early or prolonged body dissatisfaction leave epigenetic marks on DNA?

There are answers too to who ever wants to compare.