Bio necessary for the MCAT.

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I'm currently a Psychology (b.s. not b.a.) major at UCSD with a general biology minor. What subjects of biology should I study in order to be prepared for the MCAT (I need at least four topics, not including genetics because I've taken a course on it). </p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>General Biology covers everything that technically would be on the MCAT. Further studies in Cell Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Anatomy, Cell Biology, and other courses that focus on pathology, immunology, virology, and deeper microbial understanding will provide a more sound foundation for the MCAT but shouldn’t directly influence it (significantly). On another note, these are all courses that will, however, give you an edge over other students when entering medical school.</p>

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<p>So would introductory classes in Cell Bio, MicroBio, and Mammalian Physiology be ideal?</p>

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<p>EH, general bio classes tend to vary from school to school…</p>

<p>For example, my intro bio class covered topics like, 3 point genetic mapping, bacterial genetics, recombinant DNA technology, genomics, cancer genetics, cloning/stem cells/transgenics…My school’s intro bio class had a lot of genetics stuff, but we didn’t cover topics on the cardiovascular system, nervous system,skeletal system or w/e. My friends at Texas A&M in intro biology, didn’t cover a lot of genetics stuff, but focused more on learning parts of the cardiovascular system, nervous system…</p>

<p>I just hope the genetics material that was stressed in my intro bio class will be tested on the MCAT bio section</p>

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<p>Good points, I’m not doing lower division biology since I got ap credit for it. Therefore, I picked up the minor so I could get exposure to biology. I’ve already taken upper division genetics: I was hoping to get an idea of what upper divisions I should take (some of which Engineer head mentions).</p>

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<p>In my experience, genetics and physiology were the most helpful; cell bio might be a distant third.</p>

<p>A good English or philosophy class will help you more than most bio classes, however.</p>