At my school the "general biochemistry" class is a senior level class with prereqs that make it almost impossible for non-biochem majors to take it, and I've also been told it's well above the level needed for the MCAT. I don't have the option to take this class before the MCAT but I can take a class called "concepts of biochemistry" or "biochemistry for biotechnology and life sciences". Here are the course descriptions of each:
Concepts - Short course in fundamentals of the chemistry of living systems. Introduction to major categories of biochemical substances, metabolic pathways, and principles of biochemical information transfer.
Biochem for biotech - Survey presentation of the basic principles of biochemistry as they apply to biotechnology. Topics covered include protein structure, enzymology, cellular organization, and biochemical regulation. Special emphasis will be given to gene structure, transcription, and translation, cellular organization, and cloning, sequencing, modification and expression of recombinant DNA. Examples will be given of agricultural/medical/industrial applications of cellular and molecular biochemical knowledge.
I'm only taking this class for MCAT prep so is there one that sounds better for that? My academic advisor said to take concepts of biochem but I'm not sure how familiar with the MCAT he is.
Concepts - Short course in fundamentals of the chemistry of living systems. Introduction to major categories of biochemical substances, metabolic pathways, and principles of biochemical information transfer.
Biochem for biotech - Survey presentation of the basic principles of biochemistry as they apply to biotechnology. Topics covered include protein structure, enzymology, cellular organization, and biochemical regulation. Special emphasis will be given to gene structure, transcription, and translation, cellular organization, and cloning, sequencing, modification and expression of recombinant DNA. Examples will be given of agricultural/medical/industrial applications of cellular and molecular biochemical knowledge.
I'm only taking this class for MCAT prep so is there one that sounds better for that? My academic advisor said to take concepts of biochem but I'm not sure how familiar with the MCAT he is.