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How much effort should I put in memorizing anatomy? So far, I havent really memorized every thing but just made myself familiar with every part of ever organ.
There is no anatomy on the MCAT.
If you mean physiology, then yes. Physiology is on the MCAT.
There is anatomy on the MCAT.
How much effort should I put in memorizing anatomy? So far, I havent really memorized every thing but just made myself familiar with every part of ever organ.
There is NO anatomy on the MCAT.
There is physiology.
There is physiology.
There is also basic anatomy. The parts of the small and large intestines, for example. The structure of a sarcomere. The heart. The movement of blood in the circulatory system. The movement of air in the respiratory system.
Anatomy, for our purposes in general should be understood as gross anatomy. The sarcomere,etc can be classified as histology or microanatomy. But that's not what MCAT bio refers to. The sarcomere, generals of circulatory system, digestion,etc is more accurately described as physiology (physiology of course maps anatomic regions, but does not focus on them per se, but rather the processes that take place there). So you need to know where the brain is right? that does not mean you are studying it's anatomy.
Repiration and that stuff is called lung/respiration physiology, Not anatomy of the lung or respiratory system. I mean you need to know what the trachea is but that does not make it anatomy.
Knowing the flow of air is not in any case anatomy.
Plus, in the test, you are more likely to find flow of air in the context of Bernoulli anyway.
just my .2
To partially answer your question: know the developmental lineage (e.g. ectoderm) of organs and know the hormones they secrete / react with. This stuff just has to be memorized. Every organ has some basic jobs and secretions that must be memorized.