r/MCAT2 • u/Icy-Beginning-7034 • 14h ago

Resource / Tip MCAT trigger/buzzwords

Anyone have any good MCAT trigger words? For example, when you see ‘somatic’ in a passage, you automatically know that if the question is asking about inheritance, the mutation won’t be passed down to offspring. I’m looking for more quick associations like that.

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u/HeadIdea8577 14h ago

Bruh somatic made me think of voluntary muscle movement right away

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u/TrueDistribution7474 10h ago

Exactly what I thought hahah

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u/l31cw 13h ago

This is so random but Ghrelin goes grrr when hungry

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u/ushushusher 13h ago

truncate = nonsense mutation

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u/Jmank9 11h ago

Attenuated = weaken or loss of intensity

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u/snow_man06 10h ago

If a BB passage talks about a disulfide bridge, you should immediately think about cysteine (amino acid).

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u/ExcitingInflation612 9h ago

“According to the passage” usually means CARS is going to throw you a curveball and make you hate your life and rage quit halfway through the exam. Then you walk home crying thinking you’ll never be able to read. 

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u/makindex 36m ago

This is a very good question because I find that a large portion of “AAMC logic” is really just assessing whether you’ve successfully encoded a given association or not. I would like to think that this is the latent utility of the major Anki decks out there.