In what class or major are you required to know the Krebs cycle perfectly?

Question

do you need to know all the steps of Krebs ceycle in a biology major? Biochemistry major?. Perhaps med school I guess.

Answer 1

I would say Biochemistry (for sure), Biology (bit vague what that is), Cell biology and Physiology, if you have such majors.
You would be safe with things like Botany and Zoology or Dev. Biology. But it would be easier to learn it and get on with your studies rather than avoid the whole course because of it, right?

Answer 2

You will probably have to learn it for both, since you will take an upper division biochemistry class for both majors. However, it really depends on your professors, I had one for metabolic biochemistry that required to the last detailed knowledge of the Krebs cycle and catalytic mechanisms for several enzymes in the cycle (amino acid side chains and substrate to intermediates to product(s)). Not to mention all the fun pathways of anabolic reactions that use or feed into Kreb cycle reactants/products. The other section for the course did not require it, you got the notes to use on your test with all this but the questions in both classes were to test understanding, just for my class one or two questions would go after the details. Med school definitely not, just what it does and what comes in and out. Just so you know everyone forgets the details about an hour after the midterm, and will likely never have a use for them again. Ask any biochemistry professor to draw the details two weeks before the Krebs cycle lecture and like anyone else they will draw a blank. What is important is that you know what it does and why it's important.

Answer 3

It depends on what you want to major in. I'm currently majoring in nursing. I definitely have to know what some of the mechanics of the cycle, but I don't have it memorized. I would think that if you were a biochem major, you would definitely have to know the Krebs cycle, but a biology major is more focused on biology. Although, it shows up in a lot of biology classes. I've taken Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, General, Organic, and Biochemistry, and I'm currently taking Pathophysiology and it has shown up in every class having to do with something related to what we were learning in that unit. It also depends on what institution you're at and what the prof focuses on. Essentially, no one is going to know the definite answer to your question.

Answer 4

I had to know the Kreb cycle for 2 classes, both being biochemistry classes. Intro to biochem and Metabolic regulations. Otherwise you just need to understand what the Kreb cycle is all about.

Answer 5

Absolutely! My test in college was a blank sheet of paper. The question, show all the steps of the PhotosystemI and Photosystem 2.

In college, especially the upper two years and onward, they expect you to KNOW stuff . . . not just recognize something in a multiple choice question.

I know, what a drag . . . they actually expect you to have learned something . . . . .

Any of the majors that deal with biological sciences will require that you know this.

I require my honor's students in high school to know this.

BIOLOGY TEACHER

Answer 6

You probably don't need to memorize, but be very familiar. Unless the instructor says you'll have to memorize it for exams. I had to memorize Glycolysis for one of biochem classes. Which isn't bad at all if you understand chemistry and goals of each steps. You'll never retain that in your head anyways unless you are constantly exposed to it.

Answer 7

I had it in Biochem I. Had to know the cycle- substrates, enzymes, at which steps which Carbon atoms are liberated, etc.