Thursday, 18 August 2016

SIRI SOALAN RAMALAN SPM 2016 (2/10) - Causes of Variation

Here is the next one:

Q: Observe the picture above. Briefly discuss how sexual

reproduction contributes to genetic variation (6 marks)

Revise the notes for crossing over here, and Mendel Law here. Perfect score is given due to

concise sentence

having flow

relevant points

SOALAN RAMALAN KBAT BIOLOGI SPM 2015 - Kajian Sel Stem

Prologue - Will this be our future due to stem cell research & cloning?

Memorising Technique - Mendel's First Law

To memorise this, use ASK technique:

A - allele
S - separate
K - (k)combine
Here are the complete explanation:

Seems easy enough. Unfortunately SPM question is not this simple. The question would ask you
to apply this law in the schematic diagram given to you, especially concerning genetic diseases .
We discuss about this later.

SOALAN RAMALAN 2015 + KBAT (Soalan Struktur) - Diabetes Mellitus

Here is the graph of diabetic person being admitted to clinic and administered hormone injection
at time X.

REMINDER
At this level, you should use the term 'hydrolyse' instead of 'digest' or 'break down' for the
chemical digestion process.
RESPECTO.
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Thursday, 20 March 2014

MADEASY - Understanding Rhesus Factor in 1st & 2nd Birth
I have a lot of request from teachers/students about how to explain the rhesus factors in
mother/embryo in 1st & 2nd birth. This post is my reply:
First, the question would be something like this:

A mother has Rh(-). Explain why her 1st-born

Rh(+) baby has no problem but the 2nd-born
Rh(+) baby does.
For the 1st born, look at the diagram below:

As you can see, mother is Rh(-) and the baby indeed Rh(+). Let's use Rh(-) as the 'bad guy' (
) and Rh(+) as the 'good guy' ( ). As usual the bad guy will attack the good guy.
But here, nothing happen because mother's immune system has yet to produce 'weapon'
(antibody) to attack the baby's 'target' (antigen). In other words, mother's immune system is
simply not ready.
Now, let's see what happen in the 2nd-born baby with similar Rhesus factor:

You realize the bad guy (mother) already produced the 'weapons'. This time, the mother's
immune system is ready with full antibody. As a result, the baby's Rh(+) is attacked, causing
harm to the baby.
This condition is known as erythroblastosis fetalis.
It killed most babies before the Industrial Ages. Thanks to the modern medicine, we have ways
to prevent this from happening...
Congratulations! Now this topic poses no hindrance to you. We shall meet later near the 2014
SPM exam to discuss the right techniques to answer this type of questions -and tonnes of funduring my big seminar this year in FRIM. Wish you well in your study! :-)

Haemophilia - Tips on Essay Questions

Paper 2 Section B is the most dreaded part of them all. Here is a quick tips on how you are
going to tackle them, once and for all! :-)

PART 1: 3 SIMPLE TIPS

1) Have flow in your answers
The examiners want to see how good you are in putting down your answers. The key is the flow.
That's why you should use A LOT OF CONJUNCTIONS - such as firstly, secondly, after that,
besides, subsequently, finally, and so forth...
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2) Short & Relevant sentence

Remember KISS? - keep it short and simple. Don't burden the examiner with long and repetitive
sentence. Their job is to find points in your answer in order to reward you with marks. Help them
out by writing down short and

relevant sentence.

Short means not more than 10 words per sentence.

Relevant means the sentence should answer the question by delivering at least one
keyword with proper description if required (keywords are the terms with bold
typeface which you can find in the textbooks)

3) 1 Mark = 1 Sentence
The examiner will find your point through sentence by sentence. So, ONE sentence is all you
need to obtain one full mark. So, a 10-marks question means that you have to write at least 10
sentences. You can write more than that if you want to, providing you have the spare time to do
so :-)

REMINDER:
Remember PDF in Series 10? It is basically the same thing. Let's revise the technique:

P(Point) - similar with keywords

D(Description) - describe the keywords

F(Full sentence) - short yet concise sentence

PART 2: EXAMPLE OF A PERFECT

ANSWER

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Let us analyze the answers:

This is a 4-marks questions, which means you should have 4 sentences

Can you see the blue circles? Those are the conjunctions :-)

Can you see the red circles? Those are the keywords :-)

Can you see the red lines? Those are the descriptions for the keywords.

PART 3: SUMMARY:
In Paper 2 Section B, all you need to do when answering the question is to...

Write one short sentence to get one mark...

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Make sure you have at least 1 (more is better) keyword in

your sentence.

Make sure the keywords are described (if needed).

Connect the sentences with conjunctions.

BIOLOGY 2013 FORECAST SERIES 5 - 8 Terms You Must Know in

Inheritance Topic

Inheritance topics (F5 Chapter 5) if you still cannot

comprehend its 8 terms. Let see if you can enkindle your ability to recall these terms
You can't master the

below.

1. INHERITANCE
The study of passing the characters from one generation to the next

2. CHARACTER VS TRAITS
Character : Certain features controlled by the gene (ex. height)
Traits : Specific characters (ex. tall/short)

3. MONOHYBRID VS DIHYBRID CROSS

Mono: Study of one character only
Di: Study of two characters
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4. GENE
BUOI - Basic Unit of Inheritance

5. ALLELE
The pair of genes in the homologous chromosomes - Tt, GG, Hh, KK, Ll, bb, dd, Ww, HH

6. DOMINANT VS RECESSIVE GENE

Dominant gene: The desirable gene showing its character whenever it exists, showed with
capital letters
Recessive gene: The hidden gene only shows its character when dominant gene is absent - in
lower-case letters.

7. GENOTYPE VS PHENOTYPE
Genotype: The 3 coding of gene pairs using alphabets (GG, Gg, gg)
Phenotype: The physical manifestation due to the genotype

8. HOMOZYGOTE VS HETEROZYGOTE
Homo: Allele containing similar pair of genes (HH, KK,mm, ee, HH, gg)
Hetero: Allele containing different pair of genes (Hh, Kk, Mm, Ee, Hh, Gg)

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