-
CycleTrack and SDN are teaming up to make medical school admissions more transparent and accessible! Read the announcement to learn how we’re supporting the future of CycleTrack’s free application-tracking tools .
Poll- Cell Bio vs. Molecular Bio
Started by Incis0r
Get help with your application
Use all the free resources available to you from SDN: articles, guides, expert advising, forums discussions, and school research.
I took cell and loved it!
Idk about molecular, never took it.
Idk about molecular, never took it.
They call me Dr. Love 😎 Most people won't get it lolYour avatarrr lmaoooo i'm done.
Technically I took both of these classes...
From my experience cell biology was a general introduction to everything "here's the central dogma, here's the central metabolic pathway, these are the chromosomes and there are the alleles, oh yes... that's how small that organelle is and that's how large that one is..., no that is anaphase not metaphase, also don't forget the differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes..."
While the course I took in molecular biology dove deep into central dogma. It covered much more detail into what is transcription, translation, DNA polymerases and its substituents, all the major players in RNA polymerase, codons, energy required to produce polypeptides, details about DNA repair, how viruses integrate into hosts....
If you already did well on the bio section of the DAT then I think you would probably appreciate the finer details molecular biology has to offer. Depends on how detailed this cell bio class of yours will be, if it's rather superficial than you might find it boring... an easy A isn't bad either though haha...
I vote molecular bio
(my real vote is for anatomy if you haven't taken it ;P)
From my experience cell biology was a general introduction to everything "here's the central dogma, here's the central metabolic pathway, these are the chromosomes and there are the alleles, oh yes... that's how small that organelle is and that's how large that one is..., no that is anaphase not metaphase, also don't forget the differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes..."
While the course I took in molecular biology dove deep into central dogma. It covered much more detail into what is transcription, translation, DNA polymerases and its substituents, all the major players in RNA polymerase, codons, energy required to produce polypeptides, details about DNA repair, how viruses integrate into hosts....
If you already did well on the bio section of the DAT then I think you would probably appreciate the finer details molecular biology has to offer. Depends on how detailed this cell bio class of yours will be, if it's rather superficial than you might find it boring... an easy A isn't bad either though haha...
I vote molecular bio
(my real vote is for anatomy if you haven't taken it ;P)
Broo haha
Wow, that first cell bio class sounds like a cakewalk compared to the molec bio class! Was it a pre-req for molec bio?
At my school, they're combined into one course, and it's a lot more like the molec bio class you described. Very deep, much closer to what they teach in professional school (and the professors pointed out that if we can get an A in this course, you should have no problems with bio/biochem in professional school). I'd recommend the molec bio course, since it'll have more use.
Yup, you called it. It was a pre-req for molec bio.
By a HUGE margin, Cell Bio has the victory and I shall proceed for the Cell Bio course. I also looked at the ADEA Guide to Dental Schools, and there are more schools on my list that "recommend" cell bio than those that "recommend" molecular bio.
Thank you all for participating.
Thank you all for participating.
