Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Catalog description

The concentration of this course is Biochemistry, the structure and function of the cells of the body, and their chemical reactions. The material ranges from how the human body obtains energy from food to the chemical basis of heredity and includes the fundamental biochemical changes that occur in the process of disease. The course also includes the basic nutrition introduction from the biochemical standpoint to prepare student for the clinical nutrition introduced in each block. The Biochemistry curriculum provides the molecular basis to prepare students for the physiology, pharmacology, and pathophysiology that follows. The majority of the course is presented early in the block in order to prepare the student for material presented in genetics and microbiology within the same block. •