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The most boring topics in biology?

I'm a senior biology major, and I hated it so much but the chem department wouldn't let me change my major to biochem because of credit transfer issue.

Anyway, from all the bio courses I've taken so far, the topics I found most boring are Ecology, animal behavior and evolution. Especially this quarter I'm taking a course about vertebrate and we have to memorize whole bunch of species names (from phylum down to species. Who cares about scientific name anyway?) and all those stupid phylogenetic relationships etc. I've also worked in a animal behavior lab where the prof studies crab behavior. That was probably one of the most pointless studies ever imo (ppl are going to hate me for saying this I know).

I'm much more interested in molecular bio & biochem (pathways & enzyme regulation etc) than boring ass stuff like classification or how a crab responds to different images ...

So, what do you think are the most boring topics?

Posted Apr 13, 2013, 11:27 PM UTC

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