BIOS 452 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sickle-Cell Disease, Organic Chemistry, Heme
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Uses basic laws of chemistry, biology and physics to explain processes of living cells. Goal: describe life processes at the molecular level and answer the question: The study of life at the molecular level. Understand important issues in medicine, health, and nutrition: has led to greater molecular understanding of diseases such as diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis, next frontier: aids, cancer, alzheimer"s disease. Advance biotechnology industries: biotechnology is the application of biological cells, cell components, and biological properties to technically and industrially useful operations. Structural and functional biochemistry: chemical structures and 3d arrangements of molecules. Informational biochemistry: language for storing biological data and for transmitting that data in cells and organisms. Bioenergetics: the flow of energy in living organisms and how it is transferred from one process to another. Know chemical structures and reactivities of molecules that participate in cellular reactions. Know how all of the pieces and different pathways fit together.
