i just transferred into a 4-year college, after coming from a community college. my major is biology and, for the required curriculum, we are required to take either genetics or evolutionary biology as a core biology class. which would you recommend? or does neither help with future pharmacy classes?
My vote would be genetics. There are parts of genetics and biochemistry that overlap with each other. As far as I know most schools require biochem, either as a pre-req or as a class once you get in.
That's nice that they give you a choice! I'm a biology major and my university makes me take both. I'm currently in Evolutionary Bio and although it's interesting, it wouldn't contribute to your understanding of pharmacy like genetics would. I agree with above, genetics a pre-req for some schools so hands down- better investment.
The university that I attend also requires both courses. That would be awesome if we had your pre-req's, I would have graduated by now. Our genetics course had a lab to go with it, evolution does not. It was also slightly more difficult and I partially blame our professor for that. As far as preparing for the pcat I thought there was a few potential questions covering evolution as well. It has been awhile since I took the pcat and I purged all that information already. Assuming that the curriculum is the same as what I went through I would say; if you want an easy grade take evolution, if you want to learn something you may potentially put to use take genetics. Good luck!
