Cell and Tissue Types

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Hello, I'm Sam Smith.

This podcast is going to cover cell and tissue types.

The first thing I'm going to go into is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

And then within each of these different sets of cells, I'm going to bring up even more cells.

So I'll talk about what's the difference between animal cells, plant cells, gram positive and gram negative bacteria, just some kind of things like that.

Then I'll talk a little bit about erythrocytes.

And then once I get past the different types of cells, I'm going to get into the different types of tissue.

And there's four main types of tissue.

That is muscle tissue, connective tissue, epithelial tissue, and nervous tissue.

And this material is going to show up on two out of the four MCAT sections, which is going to be the bio, biochem section, and then also potentially in the physics, chemistry section.

The main purpose of this podcast is to really have you understand the difference between these really common cell types or these different tissue types.

And I have seen this come up on the MCAT definitely a few times.

So this stuff is important, and I hope this podcast helps.