Bruce Alberts -- Molecular Biology of the CELL

[FightingIrish01]

🙂 Hey, I was wondering about the Bruce Alberts' Molecular Bio of the Cell.

1.) Is this the standard textbook for 2nd year Bio students who are doing either a BIO Major or BIOCHEM major?

2.)I was wondering for those who have used this textbook, did your class basically cover all the chapters and have tests based on the content...?

3.) Is the supplement very worthy and helpfulf or learning this content...

I guess for General Bio, the Campbell Reece is abundant in resources and helps you to remember all the details in the book, but with an upper level bio class, I thought it may be difficult to remember some of the book;s content.

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[fotografía]

🙂 Hey, I was wondering about the Bruce Alberts' Molecular Bio of the Cell.

1.) Is this the standard textbook for 2nd year Bio students who are doing either a BIO Major or BIOCHEM major?

2.)I was wondering for those who have used this textbook, did your class basically cover all the chapters and have tests based on the content...?

3.) Is the supplement very worthy and helpfulf or learning this content...

I guess for General Bio, the Campbell Reece is abundant in resources and helps you to remember all the details in the book, but with an upper level bio class, I thought it may be difficult to remember some of the book;s content.

I used Alberts for a graduate level course I took in Cell Biology (as an undergrad). Alberts is great as a reference--probably the best text reference on current cell/molecular biology. In my course, we read 6-8 primary lit articles per week, and the text served as a reference to understand concepts necessary for the paper. I would say, it would be really rough to have to read through that book and be tested on it, because the chapters are extremely dense! That's why it's better off a reference--"what's U6 RNA do again? Oh yeah, here we go" type of thing.

 

[modelslashactor]

i believe this book is free on pubmed, so if you are asking because you are thinking of buying it, you don't necessarily have to.

 

[jbrice1639]

another thing to consider is that alberts is one of the books on our MS1 booklist at Loyola (and I'm assuming several other schools as well), so if you do buy it, you might want to hang onto it rather than having to buy it again in med school.

 

[FightingIrish01]

Any thoughts... I thought this was the standard 2nd year text for Bio majors....or I guess you students use another text..?

 

[bbas]

Any thoughts... I thought this was the standard 2nd year text for Bio majors....or I guess you students use another text..?

We used Albert's "Essential Cell Biolology."

 

[Kuba]

I hated Alberts, but most cell bio professors have it for themselves as reference....so i guess it's good..

 

[jillibean]

We used Alberts book for Cell/Molecular Bio. But chances are you would use something more comprehensive for a 2nd year bio class (for example, we covered cell/molecular, as well as population genetics, phyisology (prokaryotic vs. lower eukaryotic vs. mammalian vs. plants), basic biochem, ecology, etc.)