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Edexcel GCSE Biology Paper 1 (Higher) - 13th May 2025 [Exam Chat]

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Reply 60

did anyone find it like a bit hard though? 🙁

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by fabulousisra
did anyone find it like a bit hard though? 🙁

lots of people from my school

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by ronseq4
I think i got like 64 minimum but most likely high-mid 70s and maybe low 80s.For the dna question i talked about double helix structure talked about made from monomers called nucletiodes each nuckletiode has a sugar phosphate and base sugar and phosphate form backbone and base is connected to sugar with complimentary hydrogen bonds with weak pairings between the two.The for the fruit i like sasid it wass crushed then detergent and salt are added ethanol glass rod (i explained in more detail but i cba to write)


bro im so dumb I knew all of thst but just talked about double helix

Reply 63

for the eukarya one I only spoke about membrane bound organelles and improved genetic testing/analysis of dna? how many marks do you think I would lose.

Reply 64

for the dna structure thing i just said two strands coiled up to form a double helix and that the dna is a polymer which is a molecule made up of many sub repeating units and then gave nucleoide as an example and said it consists of a sugar phosphate backbone and deoxyribose sugar with one of the 4 base pairs linked to the sugar

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by maheenn_
wait which one was the 27 one was it the volume one bc I thought u had to do 1x1x1 not 3x3x3


The SA:V was 2:1 so 54>>2 you divide by 27 therefore you times V by 27 to get 27

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by dumbguy135
for the dna structure thing i just said two strands coiled up to form a double helix and that the dna is a polymer which is a molecule made up of many sub repeating units and then gave nucleoide as an example and said it consists of a sugar phosphate backbone and deoxyribose sugar with one of the 4 base pairs linked to the sugar

wait I said nitrogenous sugar is it wrong 😭. but I wrote tons about bases and the helix stuff.

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by JoyceAn
It was three marks I’m 98% sure

oh my bad srry

Reply 68

thats fine as well its just more specific i think, youll still get the marks im pretty sure

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by fabulousisra
did anyone find it like a bit hard though? 🙁

yall just syaing i personally found it hard but like a lot of people in my year found it easy

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by shashyyyy09
yall just syaing i personally found it hard but like a lot of people in my year found it easy
but like if alot of people found it good then grade boundaries defo gonna be higher..

Reply 71

what was the answer to that question that was like explain the part of the brain that is responsible for eyesight or smth i put optical lobe is that right

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by dumbguy135
what was the answer to that question that was like explain the part of the brain that is responsible for eyesight or smth i put optical lobe is that right

uhh don't think thats a lobe? i put occipital and cerebral cortex

Reply 73

for last one i said abt picking a plant with desired characterstics then cutting the meristem of the plant and putting it inside a growth medium inside a petri dish and moving it for further growth

Reply 74

I wrote cerebrum? I think ur right tho

Reply 75

for the 3 domain classification i mentioned how its used bc the other classification system was out of date and bc of changes in tech??? idk if thats even right i totes spaced. also for dna i only mentioned double helix, complementary pairs, and sugar phosphate group and also for the method i just yapped ab ‘to see subcellular structure’ mostly for the reasons why. still talked ab ethanol + salt but didnt give reasons why. how much wld i get for the 6 marker do u guys think?

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by shashyyyy09
yall just syaing i personally found it hard but like a lot of people in my year found it easy

Me too I waffled so much for the reaction time and tissue culture questions

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by ronseq4
for last one i said abt picking a plant with desired characterstics then cutting the meristem of the plant and putting it inside a growth medium inside a petri dish and moving it for further growth

i think thats right, i messed up that question completely but my friend who revised the topic said smth similar

Reply 78

I got the vision question wrong damnnn I put medulla oblongata I actually mistook that for the cerebellum 😭😭

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by fabulousisra
I wrote cerebrum? I think ur right tho

hi cerebrum is the same as cerebral cortex so should get the mark

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