A-T-Pase or A-T-P-ase

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I was studying for the GRE biology subject test, and I was thinking about the pronunciation of ATPase.</p>

<p>A-T-Pase or A-T-P-ase? Which one do you prefer? (I prefer the former)</p>

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<p>I prefer the latter…</p>

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<p>I like A-T-P-ase. That’s how my last MCB professor says it lol.</p>

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<p>latter for sure</p>

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<p>ATP-ase. Good luck on your GREs.</p>

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<p>it was this morning. Thank Darwin that it wasn’t as biased towards cell bio as the practice test was. The ecology, evolution, and plant physio (which I somehow remembered) question saved my ass</p>

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<p>ATPase breaks down “ay tee pee” not “ay tee puh” :)</p>

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<p>there’s cell bio on the GRE? uh oh…guess I really do have to remember that stuff.</p>

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<p>^in the GRE subject test, not in the general</p>

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<p>Ah, okay. I might still have to take the subject test, but it’s nice to know it’s not on the general test.</p>

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<p>general test is just quantitative (high school math), verbal, and analytical writing (this section is basically just there to prove you can make logical arguments)</p>

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<p>I see. So it’s like the SAT all over again. Except many times more expensive…and important.</p>

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<p>How is the general GRE compared to the SAT? Do we really have to memorize vocabulary again? =/</p>

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<p>There is a lot of vocab. I am a Latin minor, so I have the advantage of knowing (or being able to figure out words more easily) a lot more words than the average test taker.</p>

<p>About half the words Latinate or Latinate via French; a strong background in Latin or one of its descendants really helps for those. They also throw in a lot of Germanic words; those words are the hardest, because not many of us deal with Germanic languages other than English.</p>

<p>People who don’t have strong vocabularies shouldn’t hope for more than a 600.</p>

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<p>^Hey I have a terrible vocabulary but somehow got a 790CR on the SAT lol. Did spent a lot of time with practice test books though. Guess I will have to find a way to motivate myself to do that again.</p>

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<p>The “People who don’t have strong vocabularies shouldn’t hope for more than a 600” is basically a paraphrase from a Princeton Review book</p>

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<p>ATP-ase for sure :P</p>