Reddit reviews Molecular Biology of the Cell

Depends on what your preferred mode of learning things is. If you like visual passive inputs like lectures or videos, then there are plenty of ressources on youtube even with lectures from ivy league universities.

If you want to take the more formal approach and you like reading I guess there are a lot of introductiory genetics textbooks. You could find a comprehensive list here : https://www.bioexplorer.net/best-genetics-textbooks.html/.

Nowadays its very easy to find free lectures. Do you know MITopencourseware, edx.org, coursera etc.? You can see top-notch videos of actual lectures from MIT/Harvard/Yale whatever, or on edx or coursera you get free interactive courses from top professors that you can take and learn at your own pace.

At my Unversity we started Genetics 101 with the Griffiths "An introduction to genetic analysis".

For molecular biology I very much recommend to get the 'big Alberts' it's the ONE book for molecular biology that you'll have to get anyway no matter what and it's awesome. I love it. Check it out on amazon *link*.

No matter if its molecular biology or genetics, the best tip I can give you is: Do not ignore the "problems" or "questions" section at the end of each chapter, especially when you like these kind of things. They are at least 50% of your learning effect, trust me.

Oh damn sorry, obviously I suffer from the same phenomenon as you do I just focused a bit more on your post and saw that you do not prefer study text books as first primary attempt to get information. So the first and most important life lesson I can try to give you on your way would be: Do not try to fix your 'weaknesses' but exploit your strengths. If you struggle with reading dry science books, don't try to fight through numerous textbooks and hope it to change. Accept your preferences of studying, they evolved during the previous decades of your life according to your way of learning. Try to find a way that makes you want to learn about stuff. If that's not reading, fine accept it. But if you know or guess what type of medium it is that makes you want to learn stuff, exploit that to the very maximum! You sound to function similar to me, I never loved dry textbooks as I am not able to focus for extended amounts of time (found out that I got ADHD during my studies, so that made me understand. If problems focusing on extended readings is a thing for you, consider ADHD too please :)). So the way I learned was by not going to lectures (do not recommend that though) and just zapping through the slides because that way I could choose the speed, look up stuff I did not get on the spot and keep me engaged. Just try to figure out what your most efficient way of learning things is (not only talking about studying, also if you are interested in something for your private life, this also hints towards how you like consuming information). That's an important lesson I learned during my decade at Unversity.

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source: I studied molecular biology starting 2010. 3 years of bachelors, 2 years of masters, and 4 years of PhD.

Postgrad geneticist here...I’d personally recommend molecular biology of the cell. It starts with basic principles and then gets increasingly more complex as it progresses.

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It may be worth picking up an earlier second edition as the content doesn’t tend to vary greatly. Especially in well established concepts.

I studied molecular cell biology for 3 years while at university. I used the standard B.Sc course materials recommended by the professors. Not limited to texts such as Molecular bioology of the cell and Biochemistry