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MCAT® Biology Section

Everything You Need To Know

The Biological & Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems section of the MCAT is 95 minutes long and contains 59 multiple-choice questions. This section asks you to combine your knowledge of foundational biological and biochemical sciences concepts with your scientific inquiry, reasoning, and research and statistics skills to solve problems that demonstrate readiness for medical school.

Understanding the processes unique to living organisms, such as growing and reproducing, maintaining a constant internal environment, acquiring materials and energy, sensing and responding to environmental changes, and adapting, is important to the study of medicine.

You will be tested on your knowledge of how cells and organ systems within an organism act independently and in concert to accomplish these processes, as well as your ability to reason about these processes at various levels of biological organization within a living system.

MCAT® Biology Section

Three Key Concepts Tested

Foundational Concept 1: Biomolecules have unique properties that determine how they contribute to the structure and function of cells, and how they participate in the processes necessary to maintain life.

1A: Structure and function of proteins and their constituent amino acids
1B: Transmission of genetic information from the gene to the protein
1C: Transmission of heritable information from generation to generation and the processes that increase genetic diversity
1D: Principles of bioenergetics and fuel molecule metabolism

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Foundational Concept 2: Highly-organized assemblies of molecules, cells, and organs interact to carry out the functions of living organisms.

2A: Assemblies of molecules, cells, and groups of cells within single cellular and multicellular organisms
2B: The structure, growth, physiology, and genetics of prokaryotes and viruses
2C: Processes of cell division, differentiation, and specialization

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Foundational Concept 3: Complex systems of tissues and organs sense the internal and external environments of multicellular organisms, and through integrated functioning, maintain a stable internal environment within an ever-changing external environment.

3A: Structure and functions of the nervous and endocrine systems and ways in which these systems coordinate the organ systems
3B: Structure and integrative functions of the main organ systems

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