<p>you may be thinking, biology would be a good major for a marine biologist, but that is wrong! you won’t learn anything related to even animals in biology, it’s all genetics, biochemistry, yeast and bacteria. i’ve never taken a single class using things bigger than a sea urchin as a model organism. almost all of my class and lab work was on the cellular and molecular level and mostly related to genetics. that is modern biology.</p>
<p>instead, you should learn chemistry or chemical engineering. it has the same amount of content related to animals as biology (none) but you should have opportunities to take classes in environmental chemistry, environmental processes and water analysis, which are indispensible tools for any marine biologists. in fact, these are the classes that biology students can’t take because they need math and physics! there’s nothing a marine biologist can do that chemists or chemical engineers can’t.</p>