Should I take general biology before Microbiology and Anatomy& physiology?

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I'm going to school at a community college for nursing. All the universities I'm looking to transfer to doesn't require general biology but my school does. I'm assuming it's just a recommendation and since I'm only doing the general education course I was thinking about ignoring it. I'm only concerned about if I need the information in general biology to pass the other courses. Can someone please help me out.

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At my school, I did not need general biology before taking A&P. I haven't taken Micro yet so I'm not so sure about that one, but A&P is do-able.

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Specializes in Neuro.

I'd suggest taking it. Familiarity with basic cellular function is somewhat important. Knowing about mitosis/meosis, cell permeability, diffusion, passive/active transport, etc is important. A&P has a section over that but it gets so detailed had I not had general bio I probably would've been running to catch up. Unless you can strongly recall knowledge from high school science class I'd just go ahead and take it. Kinda blows my mind that a school does not make that a pre-req for A&P/Micro.

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Depends on the student. I did because I needed a refresher course before getting into my other bios, and still feel that way semesters later, but some students who have had bio classes before probably don't need it. Also depends on the placement tests

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I thought it was really helpful. Some people who hadn't taken it before A&P struggled with cellular processes.

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Specializes in Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN.

it was a requirement at my school. I managed to take A&P without it talking to the science dean, but after learning some concepts in physiology (notably action potentials off the top of my head and contractility of muscles), it would have been nice to know before hand but didn't stop me from getting an A in the course.

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Specializes in MSICU.

It was a prereq to my a&p classes. I took it 12 yrs ago and so was allowed to register for a&p, but I kinda wish I had retake it. It's a good foundation yo have. I'm still getting an A in a&p but I think it would be just that much easier having taken gen bio more recently.

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