LF:BVBC0141p Biochemistry I -lec. - Course Information
BVBC0141p Biochemistry I -lecture
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2002
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
- 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
- Human Nutrition (programme LF, B-SZ)
- 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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