Molecular biology in medical diagnosis

[Bad Student]

Do we need to learn this chapter in Nature of Biology 2? It's been taken out of the 2013 biology study design so why is it still in the book?

[alondouek]

It can't hurt to learn it if you have the time and the patience. You don't want to have a question that comes out left-field on the exam because you glossed over a chapter simply because it wasn't on the study design.

[Bad Student]

I just found the syllabus my school provided. They skipped that chapter in the textbook.

[Yacoubb]

I think that reading through the Rational Drug Design is somewhat helpful for Chap 8 where immunity is discussed, merely because in the 2006 VCAA Biol exam 1, there was an experimental design question about designing a drug for influenza virus. I do think its also good for Genetics and looking at genetic disorders by detecting them through Chrionic Villus Sampling (CVS) or Amniocentesis. It isn't a MUST, but it sure is helpful in the case of experimental design where your knowledge of the Rational Drug Design is your apparatus to a question worth full marks Hope that was somewhat helpful BadStudent. Love your username, haha, and ironic somehow