<p>I know you have to do a year of biology for med school. Could you choose any bio course or does it have to be General Biology I and II? My GER requires me to take a science course and I could take bio(not General Bio)- that way I could "kill two birds with one stone". That would be for one semester, then the next sem, I could choose a different biology course.</p>
<p>Is that "allowed"?</p>
<p>I believe it’s okay as long as it’s a bio course with a lab.</p>
<p>Anything that has a lab AND would count towards a biology major (if you were a biology major) is fine.</p>
<p>If a lab counts toward a biology major, but it is not associated with a lecture course, will most medical schools still accept this kind of lab as one of the two required bio labs? Or, the lab has to be a part of a lecture course.</p>
<p>An example lab course offered by the biology department is like this: Course name: Laboratory in Nucleic Acid. Brief description of the course: An introduction to many of the technologies used in the molecular and cell biology. The course is organized as a project from a research laboratory within the biology department. Laboratories meet twice a week for the first half of the semester. The second half of this lab, which meet twice a week for the second half of the semester, is a continuation to more advanced methods and techniques, including projects such as making and screening CDNA libraries or microarray screening and analysis. Prereq for this lab: genetics, cell biology and biochemistry.</p>
<p>Yep. Any bio course with a lab. Texas schools also require a second year of bio, but do not require lab that second year (if that applies to you).</p>