Cellular Bio Tips?

[morningstarRN, RN]

Hello all:

I am finished with chemistry and going into cellular biology for my next class. I have a month before I start and wondered if anyone had any tips on things I should study. I went ahead and purchased the text and study guide, so I can be working on that. Any pointers on things to memorize or pay extra attention to?

[DesertRoseAZ]

I'm doing Bio for health pros, and the book is called Cell and Molecular Principles, so I guess I can help a bit.

So far, these areas have been big focuses in my class:

-Cellular Respiration (Krebs Cycle, Glycolysis,Electron Transport Chain)

-Passive and Active Transport Across Cell Membranes(diffusion,osmosis)

-Structure of Cells and Organelles (nucleus, rough and smooth ER, golgi apparatus, mitochondria, etc)

-Basic Chemistry (conversions, scientific method, elements, atoms, periodic table, hypotonic and hypertonic elements and molecules, chemical bonds, pH scale)

-3 Important Domains and 5 kingdoms of life

-Evolution

-Macromolecules (carbs, lipids, proteins, nucleic acid)

-DNA and RNA

-Microscopes

-Enzymes

-Cell Division (mitosis and meosis)

So far I'm in week 4 of a 5 week Bio class and the only thing we have left to go over is reproduction.

Good luck!

[Music in My Heart]

To cull down a bit from the preceding list, I would:

+ Memorize the cellular components and what they do

+ Understand the bilipid membrane and the various inclusions

+ Understand macromolecular structures, especially nucleic acids and proteins

+ Understand the cellular respiration

+ Mitosis and meiosis

That's plenty to work at for the next month.

[DesertRoseAZ]

That looks like my list, minus details....

[Music in My Heart]

That looks like my list, minus details....

As I said, I just culled your list to things I would focus on if I only had a month.

One thing that neither of us mentioned explicitly: DNA replication, transcription, and translation.