Good genetics review SPECIFIC TO THE MCAT?

[circulus vitios]

Has anyone come across a website that offers a good review of genetics that is strictly limited to the scope and application of the MCAT? I'm using TPR and their treatment of this section is absolute ****.

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[UoCfin]

TPR is killing me...it goes so deep into it...pretty much the first chapters in BIO...but i love it...but its killin me

 

[circulus vitios]

TPR is killing me...it goes so deep into it...pretty much the first chapters in BIO...but i love it...but its killin me

I'm only up to the genetics chapter. The cellular respiration chapter was too detailed but for the most part I liked the way they presented material. The genetics chapter, however, is terrible -- ridiculously wordy review that doesn't really teach anything. The in-chapter questions on gene linkage are absolutely worthless because the answers just state the answer without thoroughly explaining why a choice is correct or incorrect.

 

[UoCfin]

my exact thinking...anyway...it is what it is...my strategy is EK,TPR, TPR-H, TBR...just hit it and decifer

 

[circulus vitios]

While this thread is still alive, are "carrier" and "affected" two different things? Obviously affected types carry the gene in order to be affected, but when a question asks "what is the probability that a female offspring will be a carrier" do they want to know the probability of a female carrier who isn't affected?

 

[aspiring20]

While this thread is still alive, are "carrier" and "affected" two different things? Obviously affected types carry the gene in order to be affected, but when a question asks "what is the probability that a female offspring will be a carrier" do they want to know the probability of a female carrier who isn't affected?

i think in this context, carrier means someone who carries a diseased allele while not being infected with that disease. so a Rr will be a carrier while a rr will be infected.