Kaplan Test Prep - MCAT Biology Review 2022-2023: Online + Book

ONLINE + BOOK

Edited by Alexander Stone Macnow, MD

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Alexander Stone Macnow, MD

Editor-in-Chief

ine Lori, PhD

Editor

Derek Rusnak, MA

Editor

Mikhail Alexeeff

Kaplan MCAT Faculty

Laura L. Ambler

Kaplan MCAT Faculty

Krista L. Buckley, MD

Kaplan MCAT Faculty

Kristen L. Russell, ME

Editor

Pamela Willingham, MSW

Editor

Melinda Contreras, MS

Kaplan MCAT Faculty

Samantha Fallon

Kaplan MCAT Faculty

Jason R. Selzer

Kaplan MCAT Faculty

Faculty Reviewers and Editors: Elmar R. Aliyev; James Burns; Jonathan Cornfield; Alisha Maureen Crowley; Nikolai Dorofeev, MD; Benjamin Downer, MS; Colin Doyle; Christopher Durland; M. Dominic Eggert; Marilyn Engle; Eleni M. Eren; Raef Ali Fadel; Elizabeth Flagge; Adam Grey; Rohit Gupta, Jonathan Habermacher; Tyra Hall-Pogar, PhD; Justine Harkness, PhD; Scott Huff; Samer T. Ismail; Ae-Ri Kim, PhD; Elizabeth A. Kudlaty; Kelly Kyker-Snowman, MS; Ningfei Li; John P. Mahon; Brandon McKenzie; Matthew A. Meier; Nainika Nanda; Caroline Nkemdilim Opene; Kaitlyn E. Prenger; Uneeb Qureshi; Jason Selzer; Allison St. Clair; Bela G. Starkman, PhD; Chris Sun; Michael Paul Tomani, MS; Bonnie Wang; Ethan Weber; Lauren K. White; Nicholas M. White; Allison Ann Wilkes, MS; Kerranna Williamson, MBA; and Tony Yu

Thanks to Kim Bowers; Eric Chiu; Tim Eich; Tyler Fara; Owen Farcy; Dan Frey; Robin Garmise; Rita Garthaffner; Joanna Graham; Allison Harm; Beth Hoffberg; Aaron Lemon-Strauss; Keith Lubeley; Diane McGarvey; Petros Minasi; Camellia Mukherjee; John Polstein; Deeangelee Pooran-Kublall, MD, MPH; Rochelle Rothstein, MD; Larry Rudman; Sylvia Tidwell Scheuring; Carly Schnur; Karin Tucker; Lee Weiss; and the countless others who made this project possible.

Getting Started Checklist

	Register for your free online assetsincluding full-length tests, Science Review Videos, and additional practice materialsat www.kaptest.com/moreonline.
	Create a study calendar that ensures you complete content review and sufficient practice by Test Day!
	As you finish a chapter and the online practice for that chapter, check it off on the table of contents.
	Register to take the MCAT at www.aamc.org/mcat.
	Set aside time during your prep to make sure the rest of your applicationpersonal statement, recommendations, and other materialsis ready to go!
	Take a moment to admire your completed checklist, then get back to the business of prepping for this exam!

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If youre serious about going to medical school, then you are likely already familiar with the importance of the MCAT in medical school admissions. While the holistic review process puts additional weight on your experiences, extracurricular activities, and personal attributes, the fact remains: along with your GPA, your MCAT score remains one of the two most important components of your application portfolioat least early in the admissions process. Each additional point you score on the MCAT pushes you in front of thousands of other students and makes you an even more attractive applicant. But the MCAT is not simply an obstacle to overcome; it is an opportunity to show schools that you will be a strong student and a future leader in medicine.

We at Kaplan take our jobs very seriously and aim to help students see success not only on the MCAT, but as future physicians. We work with our learning science experts to ensure that were using the most up-to-date teaching techniques in our resources. Multiple members of our team hold advanced degrees in medicine or associated biomedical sciences, and are committed to the highest level of medical education. Kaplan has been working with the MCAT for over 50 years and our commitment to premed students is unflagging; in fact, Stanley Kaplan created this company when he had difficulty being accepted to medical school due to unfair quota systems that existed at the time.

We stand now at the beginning of a new era in medical education. As citizens of this 21st-century world of healthcare, we are charged with creating a patient-oriented, culturally competent, cost-conscious, universally available, technically advanced, and research-focused healthcare system, run by compassionate providers. Suffice it to say, this is no easy task. Problem-based learning, integrated curricula, and classes in interpersonal skills are some of the responses to this demand for an excellent workforcea workforce of which youll soon be a part.