Can You Substitute Anatomy and Physiology for General Biology?

[Willie Pep]

Some schools say "Biological Sciences" instead of General Biology. A&P should qualify but I'm concerned that not taking general bio would put me at a disadvantage.

Also, I'm registered to take one of the labs for this class online. What is your opinion of online classes and medicals school admissions? Personally, I'm not thrilled about it and am considering taking the lab by itself next semester so I can get away from this online stuff. But would taking the lab a semester after the lecture look bad?

Thanks a lot.

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[SweetRain]

I would say negative for both of your questions.
General Bio and A&P cover different topics. And I believe if you go on to take Genetics and Upper division bio, you'll need gen. bio. as a pre-req. Just take gen bio. You can't be a premed and try to get away with not taking it.

I wouldn't want to take online lab course either. I think taking a science course online is bad enough and online lab just sounds strange...

 

[EMS5]

Ditto sweetrain.

A&P and general bio are two completely different things. When you get to a lot of your upper division bio courses (genetics, cell, immunology, micro, etc) they start off under the assumption that you have at least a basic understanding of certain principles.

No to the online lab. I don't even see how that would work out, there were a lot of things in my general bio labs that you had to do for yourself to understand

 

[GrantN]

^
what that guy said, they're completely different courses.
I tried doing a online lab when i was in hs, really bad decision and waste of money.

 

[MilkmanAl]

Unless your school specifies that you can use A&P as your basic bio class (for whatever crazy reason), you're going to have to take general bio. Pretty much all of UNC's mid- and upper-level bio courses specifically required the intro bios, so I'm pretty confident you couldn't get out of it even if you wanted to.

 

[JmanDO]

1. A&P covers macro structures, GenBio covers molecular ones.
2. Take the real lab, it doesn't matter that it's a semester later (ysh, neuroticism).

 

[Willie Pep]

All right, thanks a lot guys. Would it look bad if I didn't take the lab at all? I took AP I and Lab I last semester. I'm concerned that they might think I was intimidated by Lab II or something.

 

[MichaelRW]

youre overanalyzing. esp if they see that you took gen bio in the "slot" where your AP dos woulda been.

 

[James105]

I am in the same boat, actually. I took A and P as pre-reqs for PA school. I also graduated, so I wanted to determine whether the biology courses were necessary. Thus far, in all of my emails to schools (including University of Missouri and Johns Hopkins) I was told that I only needed an addtional upper division biology course to complete the requirment. So take it for what it is worth.