BCHM 10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phenylketonuria, Zygosity, Brain Damage
27 Jun 2018
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Slide 1
INTRODUCTION TO
BIOCHEMISTRY
BCHM 100:
BCHM 100 Weeks 1 - 2
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Slide 2
What is Biochemistry?
•Overall
–How can we understand the structure of molecules that are too small to see and
their actions that occur at rates we find difficult to imagine?
•DNA
–How does DNA encode the information necessary to make the molecules with
which organisms are constructed, and what is the impact of changes in that DNA
sequence?
•Metabolism
–How do organisms make the small molecules that they need, and degrade ones
they do not?
•Proteins
–What molecules do living organisms use to catalyze the conversion of these
small molecules?
•What happens when these processes are made not to function?
–Mutations
–Insecticides
–Weed killer
–Antibiotics
BCHM 100 Weeks 1 - 2
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Slide 3
Helpful Study Hints
•Print out the lecture notes before you come to class.
• Use these to write lots of extra notes. Lots of the exam and quiz questions
will cover material that I talk about – but that isn’t on your lecture notes!
•Many slides in your lecture notes will have blank spaces:
•You need to make sure to write notes from the slides shown in class to fill in
these blank spaces
•Some important terms are underlined. Use these to make a vocabulary list
to help you study
•Extra reading material and website links are provided in Blackboard Learn
under the “Cool Stuff” folder. There is no textbook assigned for this course.
• If you need extra help – make sure to visit your TA during their office hours.
• Install the recommended software (Pymol) on your computers and use this
to help you complete the assignments and visualize proteins and amino
acids. You will need a laptop or tablet for many of the class activities.
Optional software: ChemDraw.
BCHM 100 Weeks 1 - 2
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Document Summary
How can we understand the structure of molecules that are too small to see and their actions that occur at rates we find difficult to imagine: dna. How does dna encode the information necessary to make the molecules with which organisms are constructed, and what is the impact of changes in that dna sequence: metabolism. How do organisms make the small molecules that they need, and degrade ones they do not: proteins. Helpful study hints: print out the lecture notes before you come to class, use these to write lots of extra notes. Use these to make a vocabulary list to help you study: extra reading material and website links are provided in blackboard learn under the cool stuff folder. There is no textbook assigned for this course. If you need extra help make sure to visit your ta during their office hours.
