3 ECTS credits
78 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4021482DNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (D) Master - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
- Department
- Bio-Engineering Sciences
- Educational team
- Jan Steyaert
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
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26 contact hours Lecture
- Course Content
This Biochemistry course provides an introduction to the molecular design of life. First, we describe the molecular structure of nucleic acids, proteins and explain replication, transcription and translation and describe biological membranes.
In a second part, we focus on the structure-function relation of proteins: Enzymatic activity, Cooperativity, enzyme regulation and protein folding.
The last part of the course describes the basic principles of metabolism with focus on the key catabolic pathways.
- Additional info
None
- Learning Outcomes
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General competencies
The students should be able to:
- Draw the covalent structure of the key biomolecules and metabolites
- Describe the molecular forces that define the structure and the interactions between biomolecules and drive metabolism
- Understand the flow of information (replication, transcription and translation)
- Describe the structure-function relations of biological macromolecules (DNA, proteins,...) by using real examples.
- Describe the most important anabolic and catabolic pathways and integrate them in a broader metabolic network.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Oral exam
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Molecular Biology: Standaard traject