CHEM480 — Biochemistry 1
Structure and function of the 4 major biological polymers: nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates and their monomers. Application of thermodynamic principles to bioenergetics, introduction to biological (enzyme) catalysis, introduction to metabolic pathways including glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, the citric acid cycle, and electron transport/oxidative phosphorylation.