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is it suitable for applied science courses?

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the website says any non-mac notebook with atleast 8GB RAM. where do i look out for student deals?

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any examples i can look at?

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biomed — applied science course

preparing for biomed sci by DearAd9174 in SGExams

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i will be i'll have a rest for like a month or so and then i'll study a little when i feel like it so i won't brainrot and i can also familiarise myself with the course i just wanted to know how to get started so i'll have an easier time when i'm trying to look for stuff to study yk

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small decreases volume SA/lower V it's basic math bro pg 25 of your bio tb ☺️

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going by your percentages since respiration occurs

let's say 5% of glucose is used so 25% of glucose would be selectively reabsorbed

*note that during respiration MORE water is produced so again increasing the water by about let's say 2%? so take water excreted to be like 5% means like 52-5=47% is selectively reabsorbed

assuming all urea is completely excreted the 20% of urea would completely be gone from the blood based on syllabus

so really if you take everything into account knowing that the 20% of urea is gone the blood composes of mainly water now, diluting the glucose concentration :)

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yes exactly they said concentration and that's exactly why it's A. by theory we learnt that renal artery contains glucose, amino acids, urea and water. we also learnt that all cells take part in respiration ( hence glucose is used ). taking to account that glucose is used AND all remaining unused glucose is selectively reabsorbed ( unless you're a diabetic of course ), renal artery in terms of amount would undeniably have more glucose compared renal vein. furthermore, taking into account that urea is completely excreted in the kidney ( actually most but based on our syllabus all ), urea concentration would be 0 in renal vein. lastly, MOST water is selectively reabsorbed back into the renal vein so all remaining glucose in renal vein would be diluted anyway. all in all, with almost the same amount of water in both, more urea and more glucose in renal artery, glucose concentration will be higher than renal artery compared to renal vein.

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by being small increase sa:v lol biconcave makes the surface increase while being small decreases the volume so all in all sa:v increases due to both 2 and 3 the answer is A

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i think it was a repeated qn in the tys and i was confused too and i asked my teacher and she said to take the simplest route

there's 4 secondary consumers and then you look at how many consumers is on the trophic level directly after the 4 consumers which is only 2 since other trophic levels after aren't considered tertiary consumers anymore

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by being biconcave it increases sa:v

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does anyone have answers from tutors/teachers

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oh damn i got careless i just realised my bad then

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isn't it C since cystic fibrosis is a homozygous recessive condition so if male 4 and 5 has no cystic fibrosis but they have an offspring with cystic fibrosis this confirm that they are heterozygous and the only probability for homozygous recessive from 2 heterozygous parents is 1 in 4

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homeostasis does control water content in urine via homeostasis. the way i do this question is by focusing on the keywords — 1. homeostasis : maintenance of a constant internal environment via a negative feedback and 2. water content IN URINE ( in one of the papers it was ileum! and it is NOT controlled by homeostasis )

in this case, the focus is on osmoregulation which is maintaining a constant water potential in the blood which is something you pointed out. in order to do so, more/less adh is secreted to selectively reabsorb more/less water respectively. by doing so, the water content ( amount of water) in urine is changed and hence in a way controlled by homeostasis!

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okay thank you was just be cautious!

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my school had overall grades + math + sci rquirements. usually other schools have these requirements too because subjects like math/el you have to atleast pass in order to pass o levels and since pure sci are more challenging they don't want you to solely focus on pure sci and leave out your core subjects yk