i think my classmates in ap biology are a bit dramatic in the way they overreact if they fail a test and they are really competitive. i was looking at the difference between molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry and they are quite similar. a molecular biologist needs to know genetics, physics, chemistry, calculus and also computers for a laboratory research. there is a field in molecular biology that is called molecular genetics and deals with dna. genetics is the study of genes and hereditary. molecular biologists and biochemists overlap quite a lot, but biochemists deal with thermodynamics and the chemical functions within cells while molecular biologists deal with cells of organisms from plants to animals. this is why i want to learn computer science so i can learn to program computers and work with them on figuring out dna sequences if i am going to be a molecular biologist. my java classmates are a bit too loud and i want to concentrate on learning. calculus can be used to calculate blood flow through a vessel, cardiac output, tumour growth.
it is hard getting used to the ap biology and ap calc tests b/c they are quite hard, but i’m going to work on it. i seem to understand the topics, but when it comes to the test, somehow my inner bully gets in the way and i don’t do so well. also the tests range between 80 minutes to two hours over a lot of formulas, concepts and chapter things (especially ap biology). i am always afraid for ap biology, i am not taking enough notes or fully understanding the material before a test b/c when it comes to the test, the teacher tests you on all sorts of things such as food web diagrams and some of the stuff that you didn’t include in your notes, but was in the textbook or some info that you need to use your knowledge on so the ap biology and ap calc tests are very thought-provoking indeed.