How important is math/physics?

[wannabe123]

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im curious to know how important math and physics are for understanding biological processes, and to what degree the physics/math should be understood.
Particular subjects ide like to know about are; genetics, biochemistry, virology.
If you have any experience in how important math and physics are for these subject please let me know! And I don’t just mean a class or 2 I mean a deep understanding of each.

Sorry if this is the wrong spot for this thread.

 

[doc05]

Very

 

[676188]

Just finished virology tonight...there was zero math or physics. Genetics had more stats in it than anything, and biochem had some math, but no more than any other chemistry.

Math and Physics are important for understanding many biological processes though: fluids, force, and optics are the first three that come to mind.

 

[Lucca]

Varies from “not that much” to “it’s everything” depending on the kind of question you want to ask. For medical school it won’t really matter beyond understanding a few basic principles. I’m a physical chemist who works with biological systems so for me, personally, the answer is “extremely”.

 

[Oso]

You just need a solid basic foundation. Basic physics is useful for understanding some things like cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system physiology.

Being able to understand graphs/depictions of data is very helpful.

Mental math skills come in handy with clinical calculations.

tl;dr: you need a basic understanding of math and physics. 1-2 classes of each is sufficient.

 

[wannabe123]

Thanks for the responses everyone!