<p>Hi, I'm a premed student who's currently in a plant biology lab. Basically, it's a very genetics oriented lab that involves analyzing the progeny between mutants and wild type a. thaliana (type of model plant). There's a lot of planting a. thaliana, as well as seed extraction and dna extraction + PCR. Would med schools look down on me for this? I can't help but feel that being in a research lab that, say, did cancer research would be more impressive. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>your level of involvement is far, far more important than the work you’re doing or even the results you’re getting.</p>
<p>Agreed, get involved in whatever interests you. I did ant research.</p>
<p>If you are sure to get into a medical school, the type of research does not matter per the above posts. If you would like to pursue graduate school as a backup, the research program is probably very important for the area of your future pursuit.</p>
<p>Holy cow, are you at UCSD? I trained an undergrad to do this kind of stuff at UCSD exactly 2 years ago…</p>