What type of Genetics is tested on the MCAT?

[HopefulDoc99]

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Any good book recommendations?

 

[Knickerbocker]

Mendelian? Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[abyssinianson]

usually mendelian. then there are a few other scenarios like cases of co-dominance that happens and the data doesnt exactly follow the basic ratios.

 

[EBI831]

basic genetics, really. you can extend this to prokaryotes and all other stuff....like if you can find a genetics cliff's notes you'd be golden.

 

[Broccoli]

basic genetics, really. you can extend this to prokaryotes and all other stuff....like if you can find a genetics cliff's notes you'd be golden.

ditto.

 

[thadocta26]

Learn to do a Punnet square with a two-gene dihybrid cross as per the 9:3:3:1 Mendelian ratio. It doesn't get any harder than that. High-school stuff, really.

 

[Omyss]

hmm then why is seemingly everone complaining about how hard it was?

 

[Law2Doc]

hmm then why is seemingly everone complaining about how hard it was?

Some people have very weak intro bio courses which somehow don't cover this, and so people get first exposed to genetics at their MCAT prep class and freak. But stronger college bio classes will cover everything you need in terms of genetics.

 

[dmk]

the mendalian stuff are pretty easy. the more molecular aspects that deals with epigenetics can be pretty foreign to people who never took any class on it.

 

[Cooolguy]

everythign was in the kaplan review notes, most of those passages are simply critical analysis of stuff. i would give concrete examples but sdn doesnt allow it.

its easy just study it.

verbal on the other hand.....

 

[thegame11]

I think you just need to know the simple mendilian genetics. But, you need to do lot of thinking. You need to have a general idea of epistasis (how one gene affects other genes --> there's a passage in aamc 9 about how blood antigens are determined by 2 genes... look at that)

 

[rehanyazdani]

Go study zebrafish

Haha...you must have had form AH! What a crazy passge it was...

 

[crackerj]

siRNA, etc... stuff from recent Nature articles...

 

[akinf]

Mendelian and molecular genetics...also for good practice, get in the habit of reading journal articles...PubMed is a good place to start.