What the fuck is antagonistic pleiotropy?
Nov. 20th, 2003 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreI was asked what it was in Tuesday's exam and was like "guuuhhh, when did we learn this?" I made something up.
Looked it up when I got home. My bullshit answer was wrong. It's pretty much a fancy term for trade-offs. Now if they'd asked about trade-offs I could have easily written a paragraph but they used some fancy term I'd never heard of before. So I DO know about what they were asking, I just didn't recognise the term. This is why I dislike exams as indicators of your knowledge.
The genetics exam looks like it's gonna be a doozy. There is sooooo much to remember and you can't even bring in a sheet of formulas or anything which sucks big time. I can't keep all this info AND formulas in my head. Hopefully I will get over the neccessary 40% however.
In other news we bought a tent, just over $100 from Big W and WOW!! We put it up yesterday as a practice run and it's AWESOME!! It has two rooms and can be mixed and matched to have awnings on either the front or back and you can roll up side walls for airflow. It's very neat, and it all stores in a nifty carry bag.
Can't wait for this trip, Centerink better bloody get my payments in order before I go. *growls at Centerstink*
Looked it up when I got home. My bullshit answer was wrong. It's pretty much a fancy term for trade-offs. Now if they'd asked about trade-offs I could have easily written a paragraph but they used some fancy term I'd never heard of before. So I DO know about what they were asking, I just didn't recognise the term. This is why I dislike exams as indicators of your knowledge.
The genetics exam looks like it's gonna be a doozy. There is sooooo much to remember and you can't even bring in a sheet of formulas or anything which sucks big time. I can't keep all this info AND formulas in my head. Hopefully I will get over the neccessary 40% however.
In other news we bought a tent, just over $100 from Big W and WOW!! We put it up yesterday as a practice run and it's AWESOME!! It has two rooms and can be mixed and matched to have awnings on either the front or back and you can roll up side walls for airflow. It's very neat, and it all stores in a nifty carry bag.
Can't wait for this trip, Centerink better bloody get my payments in order before I go. *growls at Centerstink*
