BVBC0141p Biochemistry I -lecture

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Ing. Petr Kaplan, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Vladimír Palyza, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Vladimír Palyza, CSc.
Department of Biochemistry – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • The basic chemical terms: substances, particles, amount of substance, some properties of a single particle and molar quantities. Electron configurations in atoms. Types of bonds, electronegativity. Non-covalent bonds and attraction forces.
  • Chemical reactions, kinetics, chemical equilibrium. The driving force of chemical reactions, free Gibbs energy. Redox reactions.
  • Solutions of substances. Dissociation of electrolytes, the equilibria in electrolyte solutions.
  • Protolytic reactions: acids and bases, pH values, hydrolysis of salts, buffers. Osmotic pressure.
  • Detergents. Essential macroelements important for living matter and their selected compounds.
  • Carbon compounds: their constitution, configuration, isomerism, and conformation. Types of organic compounds, nomenclature.
  • Hydrocarbons, major types, structures, reactivity.
  • Derivatives of hydrocarbons: alcohols, thioalcohols, phenols, carbonyl compounds, and carboxylic acids.
  • Substituted carboxylic acids and derivatives of the acids (esters, amides, anhydrides, halides).
  • Amines and the other derivatives of hydrocarbons.
  • Heterocyclic compounds and biochemically important derivatives.
  • Structures and properties of monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides.
  • Heteroglycosides. Nucleosides, nucleotides, structures of nucleic acids.
  • Fatty acids and alcohols in lipids. Triacylglycerols and waxes. Phospholipids and glycolipids.
  • Eicosanoids. Isoprenoids. Steroids.
  • Standard amino acids, structures and common properties, polarity. Peptides, some groups of peptides exhibiting biological activity.
  • Proteins, main features of the structure of globular, fibrous, and membrane proteins.
Literature
  • VACÍK, Jiří. Přehled středoškolské chemie (Overview of High School Chemistry). 4th ed. Praha: SPN, 1999, 368 pp. ISBN 80-7235-108-7. info
  • KAPLAN, Petr, Eva TÁBORSKÁ, Jiří DOSTÁL and Jaromír SLÁMA. Chemie a biochemie pro bakaláře (Chemistry and Biochemistry for Bachelors). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 162 pp. ISBN 80-210-2190-X. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2002.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2001, recent)
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