General Chemistry vs. BioChemistry

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I am currently taking General Chemistry which is required to get accepted into the Nursing program and get on the wait list. I am doing ok in it. I have a B average right now and need to pass with a C or better, so I think I will make it.

My question is this...I have to take BioChem before I can start my nursing classes. There must be a big differnce between Gen. Chem and Bio otherwise why else would they make you take both, right?? In general what are your thoughts on the level of difficulty between the two?

Thanks in advance for any answers I get.

I was so glad when I realized how intense science is in nursing school. I have a bachelor's in chemistry and am getting a second bachelor's in nursing. It's good to know that I can really cross my two biggest interests!

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I took organic, inorganic and bio-chem and I thought Bio-chem was the easiest and made the most sense...

:dzed: Either you really need to consider a career in research, or the biochem you took and the biochem I took were not the same thing at all. The premeds who took that class were doing good to scrape by with a B...

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:dzed: Either you really need to consider a career in research, or the biochem you took and the biochem I took were not the same thing at all. The premeds who took that class were doing good to scrape by with a B...

I think it's a different set of coursework. I know my school had 100 level chem in which you did one term of General Chem, one term of Organic Chem and one term of Biochem. Science major chemistry was a year of each of those. General Chemistry is 3 terms (200 level) Organic chemistry is a year of 300 level and biochemistry is a year of 400 level. I'm minoring in chem....I did my gen chem last year, I'll take O-chem next year and then just two terms of biochem in my senior year.

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gen chemistry goes into the whole electron, structure of chemicals, elements, etc. If I recall, biochem elaborates on it with a focus directed more towards lipid molecules, permeability, nutrient absorption, how dna strings together, how molecular composition can be manipulated to create new molecules/drugs. all i can say is when you get to isomers, and if you get stuck there -- remember use my spoon trick noted in another reply earlier. Good luck

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