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At our regional, we were questioned over the processes (like majorly, most of the stations had process questions) but I thought that was only C division. I do not know what happened, but we somehow still got 2nd place o.o
I guess because everyone else was like wtfbbq? when they saw that, but we were able to guess some of them because of a part of our notesheet. We checked in the rules and it said NOTHING about them! So should I just learn them for states, or not worry about it because state people would NEVER do something like that...*end sarcasm*
Also, I am not sure if this counts, but a question about how muscles recieve the signals from the brain and the entire process must have included something about the neuromuscular junction, but that is national level only. Oh well, we still did really well.

Big_Platypus wrote:At our regional, we were questioned over the processes (like majorly, most of the stations had process questions) but I thought that was only C division. I do not know what happened, but we somehow still got 2nd place o.o
I guess because everyone else was like wtfbbq? when they saw that, but we were able to guess some of them because of a part of our notesheet. We checked in the rules and it said NOTHING about them! So should I just learn them for states, or not worry about it because state people would NEVER do something like that...*end sarcasm*
Also, I am not sure if this counts, but a question about how muscles recieve the signals from the brain and the entire process must have included something about the neuromuscular junction, but that is national level only. Oh well, we still did really well.

Yeah sometimes it can be hard to predict how these testing events are going to be like. Though to be strictly and brutally honest, the SO rules are a mere guideline for the regional and state tournaments. Neither one of them are "forced" to follow the rules to the dot and they are allowed some leeway, though most tournaments tend to stick to the rules.

Still it sounds like you did well and maybe you could send this question to your state director to find out. I know that it can't hurt to try.

although to keep it fair i think any test that has material not in the rules should be thrown out

For bones, do we need to know all the specific tubercles, tuberosities, fossas, etc. on every bone?

gopanda13 wrote:For bones, do we need to know all the specific tubercles, tuberosities, fossas, etc. on every bone?

We had a lot of that on our test, so yeah, you might want to study that a little.

in the rules it says know the surface anatomy of the bones, and at nationals last year, they asked specific parts of the bone

from experience, i'm guessing you should know the specific surface features at the girdles, knee, elbow, etc.

bleh. the muscle contraction system annoys me. i like the skeletal system better =/ it's simpler. and the endocrine system with a bajillion hormones... -shivers-

oh and i really like ktrujillo's test in the wiki

How do you tell the difference between smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle. I know that the skeletal and cardiac muscle have striations while the smooth doesn't but what else? I also know that cardiac is branched while smooth is pretty linear. I can't tell the difference when the pictures are small such as the one on SOninja's test. Is there a way to tell under a microscope as well, just in case we have to do that.

Look at the nuclei. Smooth have one central nucleus, while skeletal muscle cells have multiple nuclei located near the sides. Cardiac muscle is intermediate, often showing more than one nucleus, but usually fairly central. In addition to branching, look for intercalated discs in the cardiac muscle.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/devobio/ ... scle1.html