Biology before Anat 1

Biology would help you much more for A&P classes. I would take Chemistry after you take all of your college math requirements because the advance math will help you with the Chem equations.
Really you take Chemistry if you are going for a BSN. Good Luck on school.

At my current school, biology is a prereq for anatomy and chem is a prereq for micro. Different schools have different policies.

Boy do I have an opinion on this post!!!!! I am currently in Anatomy 1 and it has been 15 years since I took Bio103. Biology has a HUGE impact on your understanding and absorption of what you learn regarding cells in anatomy. I STRUGGLED very much to get through the cell chapters. There was some chemistry needed but not as much as biology. I am 34 also and have two kids...where do you live if you don't mind my asking?

Yep Biology is all you need to get through ADN-- if you want the BSN take the Chemistry.

I haven't been in high school in 12 years and I am taking general biology (111) and a&p I at the SAME TIME! It has definitely been a struggle, especially those first few weeks but I read and studied and asked questions and I'm doing better than most of my classmates in both classes (A's so far on all tests!). It can be done, you just have to be proactive and self motivated. Good luck!

I think math was a pre-req for AP at my school?? Anyway, I took Bio during a semester when I couldn't get any courses that I needed toward my degree, just to stay in school and maybe learn a few things I didn't know. Ended up being a BIG help now that I'm in AP. Wow am I glad I had the course. I'm an older student and there were ALOT of things I didn't know or didn't remember.....

I took regular Bio one semester before starting A&P and it did give me an adavantage - at least when it came to the first three chapters. Without it, I would have been blind. The first three chapters were nothing but review! It also helps to have chemistry as well, but not nearly as much as Bio (Bio touches on chemistry a bit anyway; biochem) helped, so I do recommend Bio first. Definitely. I'm taking chemistry with A&P 1 right now, and it's not so bad. I dedicate at least 1.5 hours a day for each subject - more if a test or quiz is coming up.

On my A&P syllabus Bio was strongly recommended before starting the course, whereas Chemistry was not (though chemistry is ultimately required to make it into the program).

Good luck. Better to have the foundation.

ETA: The ADN program at my school requires chemistry. I think chemistry is needed when it comes to pharmacology, and honestly once you have bio, and chemistry, and anatomy you realize how everything is so interrelated - chemistry has a huge function in the body. I know chemistry sucks lol, but better to take it. I think it would help you in the long run, honestly.