Biochemistry I

These pages contain material relating to a first semester undergraduate course in Biochemistry. A typical semster course would cover this material with approximately 38 lectures.

The topics include:

• Basic Concepts
• Thermodynamics
• Amino Acids and Proteins
• Carbohydrates
• Lipids
• Membranes and Transport
• Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
• Recombinant DNA
• Enzymes and Kinetics
• Molecular Motors
• Metabolism
• Glycolysis and TCA cycle
• Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation

A recommended text is "Biochemistry" by Garrett & Grisham. The above material would cover the first twenty one chapters.

2001 Dr. Michael Blaber
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
blaber@sb.fsu.edu