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Distinguish between active and passive transport and relate these to the processes occurring in the mammalian kidney. (4)

Addison's disease is a rare endocrine disorder occurring when the adrenal glands, seated above the kidney, fail to produce enough aldosterone. Without aldosterone, the body would not be able to reabsorb salt (specifically sodium ions) this would cause severe dehydration and excessive potassium...

Could also compare that arteries carry oxygenated blood whereas veins carry deoxygenated blood but that's about it

Compare the structures of arteries and veins, relating them to their function. (3)

Diffusion and osmosis are both examples of passive transport, this is too slow for the normal functioning, because the movement of molecules relies on differences in the concentration gradient between two solutions. Diffusion offers further issues as toxins can accumulate in the body, and can...

Outline how cell differentiation and specialisation assist in the maintenance of health? (3)

Ahhh that's what I was missing, thanks!

Co-dominance is an incomplete dominance in which both alleles are expressed in the heterozygous form. In co-dominance the hybrid showing a different phenotype means there are 3 possible phenotypes and Mendel’s 3:1 does not account for a third phenotype. Is this alright? I'm not 100%

Pompeii wasn't too bad. Pretty decent questions, had to stretch ethics a bit though Persian society wasn't too bad up until the 15 marker, bit tough but not awful Xerxes was pretty shit, the questions were a huge stretch for the marks allocated to them, but so thankful I went over my stuff for...

I think the big 7/8 marker for Communication will be on technologies this year, but I could be wrong.

It was a hard question to answer for Reynolds wasn't it? I found it pretty difficult, the other two were good, thankfully.

Even in the first year of the new texts?

Do you recite them to yourself? Reciting helps me focus and it's pretty useful for english

I'd say the chances are very thin, but you can never be too careful.

Just finished it lad, it's pretty decent tbh

You guys hear about that 4chan threat for a shooting at UNSW? I hope it's just someone trolling

Section 1: Not too bad, much easier than the CSSA trial imo, although the questions were a bit weird, wrote 7 pages Section 2: Bit hard for me, but I made it work in the end, the stimulus were very broad but the "unexpected discovery" threw me off a bit, wrote 7 pages Section 3: This is was...

That is unhuman

And lube

Yep, I felt the same way in the trails and it screwed my motivation for the other exams I had left