BIOL 3130

Students examine central concepts in biochemistry, including the importance of water, buffers, pH and maintaining chemical equilibria within the internal environment of cells. Students conduct in-depth analysis of the structure and function of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins, including polymer formation from monomers, nomenclature and the importance of primary and secondary bonding in maintaining three dimensional configurations of these biomolecules within the cellular environment. Finally, students examine the mode of action and classification of enzymes, and derivations of the Lineweaver-Burke plot and the Michaelis-Menten kinetic parameters from experimental data.