<p>casespartan, I don’t think that bio majors take any physics here. My sister didn’t until after she got her degree, because she decided that she wanted to go to vet school and needed it as a pre-req.</p>
<p>burgler, I’ve taken upper level zoology, microbiology, and genetics. I’m a math major, transferring mech. engineering. This is my 3rd time changing majors; I’ve been literally all over the place.</p>
<p>tokyo, biology is based on chemistry, which is based on physics, which is based on math. But that doesn’t mean that bio really deals with in depth theoretical chemistry, physics, or math; at least not at the undergraduate level. The formulas that bio majors used are always pre-derived and usually idealized for bodily environments (pH, temperature, etc.). </p>
<p>There’s definitely more differences than similarities between chemistry and biology. One is using the laws of physics to study the behavior of particles and the other is applying that science to organisms. It’s like math and engineering; definitely more differences than similarities.</p>