• Question: 4.Do you prefer biology or chemistry?

    Asked by anon-285360 on 9 Mar 2021.
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      Enrico Ferrari answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      I like them both, equally. In fact I’m a biochemist, which is exactly half way between the two.

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      Jess Buddle answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      Hey! I liked both subjects for GCSE and A-level, but i decided to do microbiology for my degree and im so glad i did – it was the perfect choice for me. Sometimes we use oarts of chemistry in my job still, but i much prefer biology on the whole!

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      Lizzie Pendlington answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      I’m studying Biology at university so I will have to say Biology! But I enjoy when the two cross over, I just wouldn’t want to do Chemistry by itself 😊

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      Claire Price answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      That’s a tough question. I’m a biochemist so my answer would be both. But even if I wasn’t, I don’t think I could pick one! I love finding out how things work so to understand something in biology, you tend to know some chemistry (well in my opinion anyway).

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      Nicola Morrice answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      I’m a Biochemist so I like them both equally and use both Biology and Chemistry in my job. At school, my favourite was Chemistry though as I thought the experiments were better than those we did in Biology.

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      Callum Thomas answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      I am a biologist so in general I guess I prefer biology, but obviously I am a little biased! Having said that, biology and chemistry are very closely linked: after all, all living things are made up of chemicals so biologists need to have at least some understanding of chemistry if we want to understand how living things work!

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      Chris Waller answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      I studied a fair bit of both biology and chemistry at university but ultimately chemistry just “clicked” better with me so I gravitated towards it a bit more 🙂 That said pure theoretical chemistry can be a bit dry, so being able to find something to apply it towards (eg. chemical synthesis, chemical analysis, biochemistry, etc) is much more interesting

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      Katie Endersby answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      I studied both until I went to university, but since my degree was in Biology I’d have to say biology! There can definitely be links between the two though, especially in my work where I study how bacteria in the environment (biology!) break down chemicals (chemistry!).

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      Anna Westland answered on 9 Mar 2021:

      Biology, for sure! Living things are the most interesting. I did really enjoy A-Level chemistry though, and I still think biochemistry is really interesting. I think it’s fascinating that our bodies are just made up of a load of chemicals interacting in different ways.

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      Karen Burstow answered on 10 Mar 2021:

      I studied Chemistry at university, but now my work involves chemistry and biology (and physics!) knowledge. Both subjects are really interesting and help you to understand the other one better! I think I’d have to go with chemistry as my favourite though, as we did some really cool experiments at uni!!

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      Jo Brodie answered on 11 Mar 2021:

      Ooh a tough one as I like both 🙂 My favourite school subject and what I studied at University was in Biology so I’d say that one. But… I also picked the biochemistry topics in my degree (I think they had really imaginative names like Biochemistry 1 and Biochemistry 2!) because I liked learning about all the molecules of life, and their chemistry.
      ~
      I particularly liked looking at things through a microscope and drawing them, and there wasn’t much of that in chemistry 🙂
      ~
      Jo

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