April 2011 ACT Science Discussion

<p>@Dizzy… exactly. The question asked how they got to 100*.</p>

<p>experiment 1 was measuring the ratio of surface area to volume if im not mistaken</p>

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I do believe that the question specified, before hanging the spheres to cool.</p>

<p>It was boiling water… The question asked how they heated them. Room temp air is how they cooled them, dry ice would obv. cool them, and heating aluminum spheres with molten aluminum will melt at least some of the sphere.</p>

<p>anybody remember the q’s and a’s for the scientists talking about mutations, calories, metabolism, ect??</p>

<p>^ I guessed D.</p>

<p>Lack of time likely did me in.</p>

<p>Here are the Q’s I remember:</p>

<p>-Which would most strongly support Scientist 1’s argument (If the blah length was found to be shorter in older cells than newer ones)
-Which would most strongly support Scientist 3’s argument (If there were less mutations found in young cells)
-What do the scientists all agree upon (that blah decreases in size)
-What’s the difference between 2 and 3’s arguments (3 says the mutations occur as you age)</p>

<p>it never said “after the balls are boiled to 100…”. You added that part in your own head most likely</p>

<p>Noooo! Scientist three was arguing how aging is caused by birth. </p>

<p>Scientist two said something about some acid damaging the DNA.</p>

<p>Scientist one said something about SOMEWORD getting shorter.</p>

<p>@high Yes, that’s essentially what I meant.</p>

<p>was it less oxygen things produced and slower metabolism for an answer?
Sorry, i didn’t read the ()</p>

<p>highteeld- they all agreed that telomeres shrink with age (or after replication, one of those).</p>

<p>@high Yeah, I remember putting that for an answer.</p>

<p>somebody said mutations are formed by random damage, no?</p>

<p>High: Nooo! I thought it was FASTER METABOLISM so less oxygen things.</p>

<p>Cause speaking logically, calories is something that makes u fat, so it lowers metabolism. so the less calories, the faster ur metabolism, and the longer you live (or the longer you’re young and don’t age.)</p>

<p>Scientist 1: Telomeres decrease in length in cells as people age, causing cell deterioration.</p>

<p>Scientist 2: Random mutations happen over lifetime and are sped up by metabolism which creates those oxygen things.</p>

<p>Scientist 3: Mutations are there at birth but gradually take effect.</p>

<p>Both scientist 2 and 3 stated that while telomeres get shorter, it’s not significant enough to cause aging.</p>

<p>The answer to the question about metabolism/oxygen things was slower metabolism, decrease oxygen things.</p>

<p>I found that to be the easiest passage in the science section. The rest was pretty bad, lol.</p>

<p>yea scientist 1 said they get so short that they can no longer decrease</p>

<p>I fail to understand the purpose of the Science section, it’s complete ********, they should remove the Science section and just test E/M/R and Writing.</p>

<p>What about the one about a child having same about of telemores as an adult? that rings a bell…</p>

<p>@Gian I think that was “Which one would greatly disprove Scientist 1’s hypothesis”, and it was if a child was found to have the same length of telemores as an adult.</p>