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Originally Posted by marcie
How does this course compare to BIO 2EE3 (Microbiology)?
I just took Microbiology this term, loved it as a subject but hated the testing format (questions were exclusively on useless random facts.. I couldn't stand it). If Biochem is at all like Bio 2EE3, I will hate my life for 4 months. Maybe I should reconsider taking this course? :\
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I would say the two are not comparable really. In microbio the material was actually interesting, but like you said the testing style was horrible. Biochem...is...someth ing else...
The prof is boooooooooring and he reads directly off the lecture slides, so you won't really learn anything from going to class. The material is also dry...Kreb's cycle, memorizing all the frikken intermediates, enzymes etc etc. BOOOOOOORING
The testing style is hit and miss...it's something like 25 questions, but each question has 2 statements
Statement X: Glycolysis is the breakdown of glucose.
Statement Y: The enzyme responsible for conversion of A --> B is X.
a) Statement X is true
b) Statement Y is true
c) Statement X & Y are true
d) Both are false
All questions have this sort of format, so you kinda gotta know your stuff and this essentially means MEMORIZING the hell out of the lecture notes...FUN FUN FUN
Anyways, this course is a pre-req for some of the cool upper year courses (clinical biochem, nutrition, etc), so you should take it but don't expect much out of it.
Also never read the textbook...brutal.