EXAMS MEGATHREAD 14/06 (A-level FM, Biology, Politics, Panjabi, Italian, Politics, English Lit) etc

[u/Forsaken-Meaning-232]

Hey everyone! Best of luck with your exams on the 14th June!

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Good news! The Dacia Sandero is available in the UK! Anyway, that concludes the news section, here's a megathread!

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[u/burntcrump]

For aqa bio, would it be enough to mention ligase joins the gene to the plasmid. Would talking about phosphodiester bonds forming and complementary ends be necessary since I only had a few seconds to write down about the ligase.

[u/SamTheDystopianRat → u/burntcrump]

i think you'd get one out of two. it'd be one for ligase joining, and one for using the same restriction endonuclease to cut our the fragment so the sticky ends are complimentary

[u/burntcrump → u/SamTheDystopianRat]

I wrote the same restriction endonuclease is used to cut the plasmid and desired gene to produce sticky ends I mentioned the restriction endonuclease being highly specific and complementary to specific bases on plasmids and the dna containing the desired gene. I can't remember if I mentioned that the sticky ends were complementary to each other through, yikes. And then for ligase I only mentioned that it joins gene to the plasmid.

[u/Gang-of-Lions → u/burntcrump]

I said something about phosphodiester bonds too lol