BIOU3EG exam prep questions 2 by https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx Add your questions or answers about the session content or exam below, being a specific as you can. Post in the appropriate column and do not add a new column. Please like existing questions you also want us to answer en-us 2020-12-01 15:23:31 UTC 2020-12-08 14:48:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/987593158 Hi Stuart, please could you look to resolve the question regarding the man with classic haemophilia in week 6. I have attempted the question and have a fair idea about it but would like some clarity on the thought process behind drawing the pedigree. Thanks

]]> 2020-12-04 14:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/987593158 https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/988652712 2020-12-04 18:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/988652712 https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/988654387 2020-12-04 18:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/988654387 Neurospora experiment https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990054763 I didn't understand well the experiment done with the Neurospora. ]]> 2020-12-05 12:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990054763 Meselon and Stahl experiment https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990056744 I didn't understand how they were able to exclude the other two DNA models (conservative and dispersal) 

]]> 2020-12-05 12:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990056744 Pangenesis https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990058866 Can you describe the process of blending inheritance with gemmuls, I am not sure to have it clear in my mind.]]> 2020-12-05 12:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990058866 Polygenic inheritance https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990064936 Can you give me some examples? I did't quite catch the meaning. ]]> 2020-12-05 12:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990064936 Plastic response https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990077538 Is the plastic response immediate or is a type of adaptetion that came to help Daphnia to avoid predators eating over time?]]> 2020-12-05 12:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990077538 Humans evolution https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990298806 I am not sure if I understood it right. With the multiregional hypothesis we have gene flow and so lower genetic diversity and in the out of Africa hypothesis we have the spread of the population through the world which result with no gene flow and higher genetic diversity. Is it right?]]> 2020-12-05 16:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/990298806 References https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/991301840 Can I make all my references from the Campbell's book?]]> 2020-12-06 10:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/991301840 Referencing https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/991474754 I was assume most of the content in lectures is from the resource list and textbooks however, I have written down a lot of comments that lecturers have made? Should I reference them? ]]> 2020-12-06 12:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/991474754 Incomplete lineage sorting https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/991901101 Can you explain it, in relation to the rapid diversification?]]> 2020-12-06 17:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/991901101 Essay Question Lengths https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/992310054 Although I understand it will vary for different questions, are you able to suggest a rough guide of how long/detailed an essay answer should be?]]> 2020-12-06 23:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/992310054 Adaptive radiation https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993435521 I didn't understand the second hypothesis that was postulated to answer to the question about how niches get filled by our descendants. It is the one about ecological release and niche expantion.]]> 2020-12-07 09:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993435521 Autopolyploid speciation https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993528211 In autopolyploid speciation is it the diploid-diploid offspring (tetraploid) or the tetraploid-diploid offspring (triploid) that is reproductively isolated from the parental diploids?]]> 2020-12-07 10:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993528211 https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993541057 Could you explain the serial endsymbiosis theory again please?]]> 2020-12-07 10:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993541057 Do chloroplasts have linear or circular? In the lecture you said they have circular but I looked on google and found they had linear? https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993543498 2020-12-07 10:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993543498 The mitochondria and chloroplast genomes encode for how many proteins? I think you got them mixed up in the lecture with the slides so if you could clarify this? thank you https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993545993 2020-12-07 10:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993545993 Brad, you stated that in a phylogenetic tree, species A could be just as closely related to any of the other species in the tree but it is the most distantly related species of all of them. I don't quite understand this so could you possible recap this? https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993548256 2020-12-07 10:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993548256 Will we have to be able to construct trees by the method of parsimony in the exam or just understand how they are constructed and then comment on them or for example work out the amount of transitions of base pairs? https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993550684 2020-12-07 10:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993550684 Essay Questions https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993558229 Don't know if this has been answered already. Will everyone get the same three essay questions in the exam or will it be completely random?]]> 2020-12-07 10:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993558229 Practice question query https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993561022 On the practice MCQ, could you explain why adaptation in geographically seperated populations was parapatric speciation and not allopatric speciation? The wording seemed a bit tricky to me]]> 2020-12-07 10:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993561022 Referencing https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993571073 For the essay questions. When we are doing the references, do we use class notes or do we have to research articles online to answer the question ]]> 2020-12-07 11:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993571073 Are there going to be calculations (like the ones in the first practical) and if yes, what kind? https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993573451 2020-12-07 11:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993573451 https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993574129 how long is the exam, we were originally 2 hours but on canvas its open for 4, do we get the whole 4 hours to complete it?

]]> 2020-12-07 11:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993574129 Examples https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993575426 This may have been answered, but is there any example questions for the essay section that we can use?]]> 2020-12-07 11:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993575426 Is it enough to read the slides and the books, as I learn better while reading? https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993576006 2020-12-07 11:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993576006 sexual selection https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993578443 what we should write instead of intersexual and intrasexual selection in exam?]]> 2020-12-07 11:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993578443 Essay length https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993611935 I know there wasnt any guidelines for essay length due to it being in just how many words you can answer the question in, but would ~300-400 be generally too short to fully answer questions, in your opinion?]]> 2020-12-07 11:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993611935 SAE https://padlet.com/danielchapman2_2/reecfx6gtn4bclgx/wish/993623454 Do we need to reference in the text and in the reference section and do the references need to be in Harvard style?

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