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I'm starting to perceive everything in 3D after looking at those stereographs for too long, uh oh

So what happened today? Nothing much, but I swear people are staring (for good or for bad, I can't tell) at me in biology tutoring.

BIOLOGY IS THE BEST! Or at least tutoring is, because I actually get some of the stuff and I'm absorbing information. And compared to physics, the Biology NQE is significantly more straightforward (10 MC questions in physics compared to biology's 50 or so). Only thing though is that the really interesting topics for bio are in year 12 (i.e. genetics), while with chemistry (as a HSC course) is more even and more... idk, industrial?

Anyways, here's some (free!) notes on biology, since no-one probably pays attention to those tabs up there.
-----BEGIN BIOLOGY LECTURE-----
In protein synthesis, there exists several steps, which can be broken down into transcription and translation. In transcription, helicase 'unzips' DNA into its two strands, and RNA polymerase starts to read the designated template strand from the 3' to 5' end, producing mRNA from the 5' end to the 3' end.

Intermission: "I wish I were helicase so I could unzip your genes" (not sic.)

The mRNA makes its way (Idk how) out of the cell nucleus to a ribosome, where the process of translation occurs. The mRNA attaches to the ribosome and starts to be read from the 5' to 3' end. The ribosome translates groups of 3 bases (i.e. codons), each of which 'code' for a particular amino acid. tRNA in the cell come to the ribosome (???) and uses it's anti-codon to match with the codons of the mRNA (a codon of AAA may match with a UUU anti-codon). The translation process continues, which the proteins attached by each successive codon being attached to each other, making the protein. [What a nice simplification, eh?]

NB: The 5' end refers to the end containing the phosphate, while the 3' end refers to the sugar (deoxyribose or ribose). There's more stuff we learned/learnt (?) in 30-ish minutes, but I cbb to type that here.
-----END BIOLOGY LECTURE-----

Yesterday I successfully stalled my presentation for IST. Yay... I have a considerable amount to do this weekend.

And (owp hanging case?) today we finally had the Savage for careers :D She suggested a certain route to take for when you haven't found work experience, and I'm certainly going to follow through with it before I get owned when Work Experience has to be confirmed.

PS: TPTB finally put the preliminary physics textbook onto Moodle :O

PPS: This blog is no longer private, which might fix some things.