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I took Biochem through the UCSD extension with Dr. Yamazaki and really liked it! Shortly after finishing the class, I got a 131 on the Bio/Biochem section of the MCAT so that was nice too. Highly recommend.
Typically, one semester of organic + one semester of biochemistry requires that your school teach it's organic course in a particular (and atypical) fashion that covers all of the relevant reactivity for biochemistry in the first semester.
In a typical organic course, SNAc reactions and most other carbonyl reactivity are covered in the second semester, along with enolate chemistry. Both of which are pretty important to understanding biological reactions.
So the issue isn't finding a biochemistry course that only requires 1 semester of OChem, it's having the correct background in OChem, which depends on your schools curriculum.
In a typical organic course, SNAc reactions and most other carbonyl reactivity are covered in the second semester, along with enolate chemistry. Both of which are pretty important to understanding biological reactions.
So the issue isn't finding a biochemistry course that only requires 1 semester of OChem, it's having the correct background in OChem, which depends on your schools curriculum.
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There is also UNE if you can take courses online. Medical Biochemistry
I had already taken Orgo 2 at that point so my memory isn’t 100% but I don’t recall having much Orgo other than basic things like functional groups/ amino acids and things like that. Syllabus for MSU should be publicly available
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