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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    :)
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    You can still get an A* if your P6 was good, and still P1 is remaining, you still have a chance.
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    Kinza Zimri must be extremely good in it..That is all I can say....For the rest of us, we didnt find it easy...and if we did, we made stupid mistakes. :p
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    wrong...the lupins question specifically mentioned the word "commercially", since it said commercially the best answer would be the one which wrote abt selective breeding and genetic engineering together. writing about wild lupins means that youre writing about natural selection etc...that...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    My dad is a doctor (caridac surgeon) and he has books of PLAB, USMLE etc....I looked at one of them and the question was exactly the same, Only the last two parts had been modified, while the first part in the real PLAB paper asked for three organs, CIE asked for 2.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    I think your the only one in the whole discussion who was bold enough to say it was easy...I have been studying for it for over 8 months.....and still I made some mistakes.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    his answers are wrong but the columns are correct, the first column was for renal artery while the second was for the ureter.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    The grading thereshold contiously changes, every session, it depends on wat type of questions were given, how hard they were, and how candidates coped...... Considering that a paper is very hard, the A* minimum mark can drop down to 87-89% But for an easy paper it can go as high as 90-92% so...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    State the components of a balanced diet and give one importance of each? Explain how the diet should be changed for a person who has diabetes and who has history of heart problems
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    It was both genetic engineering and selective breeding.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    no lungs is absolutely correct
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    oh...yeah...okay...no self-pollination is also nt wrng.....wikipedia says that self-pollination and asexual mitoitc reproduction both result in buildin up of recessive alleles.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    oh sorry for keeping you occupied here.....good luck for your exams...Wish you all the best.. and again apologies for arguing...we'll see what happens when the results come out ;)
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    http://2007.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1147 Aexual Reproduction promotes inbreeding, nd inbreeding results in build of recessive alleles in a population
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    yeah...but this isnt literature.....This is science...however your point is absolutely right...If you give enough accurate facts to support it its correct...:)..well lets see wat happens when the results come out;.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    in asexual reproduction no variation occurs so no evolution occurs...etc......they would eventually get weaker bcoz, recessive alleles would start to build up..in the population...a single genetic allele coudl wipe out an entire population..Also overcrowding and competition for food, makes the...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    Explain why plants grown in this way, show less variety and are weaker and smaller than plants grown in other ways? That was the question
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    self pollination involves fusion of male and female gametes...asexual reproduction dosent...how can they give the same results....
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    less oxygen, low temperature, less sunlight due to clouds...etc..
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    The lupins one was the nitrogen cycle one.
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