Biochemistry

Full course description

This course will review a number of molecular components that make up cells: amino acids and proteins, carbohydrates, nucleotides and nucleic acids, and lipids. In the second half of the course the focus will shift to the description of (bio)chemical reactions, their mechanisms and factors that influence their rate. The final topic of the course will be enzymes and how these proteins speed up essentially all of the thousands of biochemical reactions that take place in the cell.