C1200 Introduction to the biochemistry

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Petr Zbořil, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Petr Zbořil, CSc.
Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:50 A,01026
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
Course objectives
A survey of the employment of biochemical knowledge and methods in various kinds of human activity. Analytical and productive role. Medicine and pharmacy. Biotechnological processes. Solving the ecological problems.
Syllabus
  • Intruduction. Topics of biochemical research. History and present state. Metodology. Theoretical research and practical application. Biochemistry in medicine and pharmacology. Biochemical diagnostics. Essays of biochemical markers of health state. Important parameters and their analysis. Biochemical research of deseases, hereditary predispositions, molecular deseases. Biochemistry in therapy. The fate of drugs in organism, problems, solving, use. Substitution therapy (enzymes), genetic aspects. Therapeutics production and testing. Biochemical backgrounds of modern therapeutic approaches (suicide substrates, inhibitors of translocases). Biochemistry in technology. Preparative and analytical role. Food production. Biochemistry in agriculture. Food industry. Fermentative biotechnology. Ore treatment. Biochemistry and ecological problems of industrial society. Earth as biochemical reactor. Big cycles of elements. Influence of human activity on environment, global problems. Sources exhaustion, production of wastes. Waste classes. Biochemistry and waste analysis and treatment. Liquid wastes. Waste water characteristics, parameters (C, N, COD, BOD5, TKN). Modes of waste water treatment, technology, setup. Solid wastes, biochemical ways of treatment. Bioremediation.
Literature
  • Káš, Jan - Rauch, Pavel. Biochemie životního prostředí. VŠChT Praha 2000.
  • HERBER, Vladimír, Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL, Ivan HOLOUBEK, Tomáš TYC, Jiřina RELICHOVÁ, Petr ZBOŘIL, Petr KUGLÍK, Kateřina KEPRTOVÁ, Rostislav MELICHAR and Jiří REZ. Věda a příroda (Science and nature). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 64 pp. Univerzita třetího věku. ISBN 978-80-210-4492-0. info
  • ZBOŘIL, Petr, Marie MATĚJKOVÁ and Marie VEJVODOVA. The Immobilization of Denitrification Bacteria for the Waste Water Treatment. In KÁŠ, Jan and Pavel JENČ. Environmental Biotechnology in Europe. Prague: ICT Press, 2001, p. 7. ISBN 80-7080-434-3. info
Assessment methods
Lecture. Colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
  • CORE022 Biochemie v běžném životě
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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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