BIOL2272: Biology of the Cell

Mid-semester test - 20%
It is in week 6 and tests all your knowledge in: cells & organelles, Biomolecules, Proteins and Nucleic acids, transcription and translation.

Pracs - 20%
There will be 4 pracs that will be on the following:
Cells-tissues histology
Cell replication
Genetics (dry prac)
Enzyme activity

Online tests/quizzes - 20%
These occur throughout the semester, there is no particular pattern, the lecturer just puts them up whenever.

End of semester examination - 40% NOT A HURDLE
The exam is out of 80 marks with 50 of those marks being MC and the other 30 being SA. There will be 4 different topics in the SA section. Each topic has 2 different questions in which you can only pick one of them to answer, so in the end you will answer 4 questions one from each topic in the SA part.

I will be really honest here...this subject is just like 3/4 VCE biology. If you did 3/4 biology then you can practically just look over those notes (minus the evolution part) and still get a HD. There are just some slight parts like learning a new function for CAMPs but nothing too extreme. The first topic you learn are the different organelles of a cell, then you move onto biomacromolecules, transcription/translation, genetics, cell cycle, mitosis,meiosis, metabolic pathways and finally cell types.
The lecturers, well, I don't know, they felt like year 8 teacher to me. They weren't entirely mean but they weren't funny either, they just seemed to teach and then leave so nothing worth talking about.In terms of assessment, well I liked the idea of a mid-sem test, it increased my chances of a higher mark. But I just thought of those tutorials questions as weird, its like they thought of having tutorials but cbf teaching them so they just upload the questions and answers and make us correct them ourselves. hmmm. But I actually loved this subject, it seemed so nice compared to my other uni subjects which forced me to stay up late hours at night.

Yes, with screen capture

Dr.Ian Darby
Dr.Samantha Richardson
A/Prof.Terry Piva

A practice mid semester test is available but other than that....there is nothing.

Out of 5
4/5

Well actually, the lecturer (Ian Darby) made a textbook specifically for 'Biology of the Cell', so that is highly recommended to be bought, though if you did 3/4 VCE biology then getting a textbook is practically useless.

3 x one hour lectures
No tutorial but there are tutorial questions uploaded every week with the answers being uploaded the week after.
4 x two hours pracs

2013 semester 1

100 (HD)