A comprehensive treatment of biochemistry and molecular biology stressing aspects of metabolism, metabolic regulation, bioenergetics, and recombinant DNA methodologies.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students are required to complete a term paper that will
represent 20% of the final grade. The regularly scheduled tests
and final examination will represent the remaining 80%. The term
paper will consist of two essays at least 10 pages in length that
should be handed in to the instructor on the final day of the
class. The topics will be provided on the first day of this class.
Athena Title
Biochem and Molecular Biol II
Prerequisite
BCMB 4010/6010
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will describe different metabolic pathways in terms of their chemical reactions, regulation, and energetic driving forces, and explain how they are used by living organisms from microbes to humans.
Students will apply thermodynamic and kinetic principles to explain the molecular driving forces in biochemical reactions.
Students will explain how energy is obtained, stored, transformed, and harnessed in biological systems.
Students will describe how information is stored, retrieved, and transmitted in biological systems, including the processes of replication, transcription, translation, gene expression and DNA repair mechanisms.
Students will analyze and interpret figures from primary literature on experiments related to nucleic acid structure and function.
Students will describe the different levels of biological organization from single microbial cells to complex higher organisms.
