MCAT Biochemistry, one small win at a time
The molecules of life: amino acids, proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, membranes and metabolism. five28 turns MCAT Biochemistry into short, game-style lessons, like Duolingo for the MCAT, so you can study it every day and actually remember it on test day.
- 11,000+practice questions
- 3,500+flashcards
- 200+CARS passages
- Freeto start
What the Biochemistry course covers
Biochemistry shows up in Bio/Biochem and Chem/Phys on the MCAT. The course is split into units, each unit into skills, and each skill into five levels, from quick recall up to multi-step, passage-style reasoning.
- Amino Acids and Proteins
- Enzymes
- Carbohydrates and Lipids
- DNA and RNA
- Gene Expression
- DNA Lab Techniques
- Membranes and Transport
- Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle, and Electron Transport
- Glycogen, Fat, and Amino Acid Metabolism
- How Metabolism Is Controlled
What you'll practice
- Amino acid structure, charge at a given pH and the isoelectric point
- Enzyme kinetics, Michaelis-Menten, Lineweaver-Burk plots and inhibition types
- Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, the electron transport chain and how they're regulated
- Lab techniques like PCR, gel electrophoresis and blotting
How a lesson works
- Each lesson is a handful of questions, quick enough to fit between classes
- Every answer comes with an explanation, plus why each wrong answer is wrong
- Questions you miss come back later in mistake review, so they actually stick
- Every skill has its own flashcard deck, already made for you
- Finish a unit and face a boss: a passage set that pulls the whole unit together
Built to make you come back
XP, levels, streaks and a weekly league against other premeds make it easier to show up on the days you don't feel like studying. The questions are the serious part: every one is original and mapped to the content the MCAT actually tests.
