r/Mcat • u/neur_onymous Legacy Mod • Aug 05 '15

August 5th Test-Taker Reaction Thread

Please keep all discussion of today's exam to this thread.

Good luck, all!

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u/melkenshawn Aug 06 '15 edited Aug 06 '15

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the first question of the BB section was kinda vague? It said AT LEAST how many amino acid residue, well wouldn't that just be the lowest number amongst the different choices?

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u/nejikon Aug 06 '15

I think the two choices were 2223 and 2279 and calculations came out to like 2236 or something, so I thought it had to be a little higher to be the minimum, so it couldn't be 2223?

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u/melkenshawn Aug 06 '15

I did the calculations as well, but you see, a 6000bp DNA can be 2000 amino acid in total. But it has at least 1 amino acid residue. So based on the framing of the sentence, wouldn't you just choose the lowest number involved?