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To: BenKenobi
Well I with a M.S. would be a definite “ringer” as far as comparison to a B.A. degree in Biology.

10 years experience in the industry has taught me a thing or two as well!

Biology is such a specialized subject (as History can be), especially with an advanced degree, that I think whoever designed the test would bias it towards their own area of expertise.

Like if one Historian were a Middle ages specialist and the other a WWII specialist - the test would have to be on Ancient Egyptian history or something to accurately compare.

I am a Molecular Biologist by education (specializing in genetics, signal transduction, and cardiac myocytes), and a Pharmacokinetician by training (what the body does to a therapeutic).

If you found a Taxonomist to quiz me on the names of species and phylogenies, I could give an excellent discourse on HOW such things should be determined (and if he were a morphologist classifier instead of a DNA classifier we would NOT get on!) - but couldn't tell you the NAMES to save my life!

64 posted on 02/23/2011 12:03:01 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

I lost my gamble. I was an astrophysicist. Why couldn’t you be a structural chemist or something like that? Molecular biology? Ouch! I’ll get killed.

Oh gosh. I didn’t even take high school biology. There simply wasn’t time. I took chem and physics and as much advanced math as I could.

I tutor quite a few students, and I have had to work with nursing students, so I had to pick up crash courses in biology to get me up to speed, and help them with their anatomy and physiology courses.

At least I think I understand what it is that you do. You tailor drugs to individuals so that they work better?


66 posted on 02/23/2011 12:09:54 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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