| Unit name | Biochemistry 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | VETS10200 |
| Credit points | 0 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Savery |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites | |
| School/department | Bristol Veterinary School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Protein metabolism, Nucleic Acid Metabolism, Energetics and Membrane Transport; Carbohydrate and Fat Metabolism, Hormone Activities, Muscle Energetics, Detoxification; Genetic Engineering.
Aims:
To introduce fundamental concepts and principles in mammalian and prokaryotic biochemistry. To introduce the basic language of biochemistry. To provide the molecular foundation that enables students to understand techniques such as genetic manipulation. To provide the molecular foundation upon which other pre-clinical or clinical departments will build later in the course. To demonstrate how the biochemical approach has advanced veterinary science by explaining particular events in the normal or in the diseased or defective states.
At the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of protein structure and function, molecular genetics, mRNA translation and protein synthesis, energy production and utilisation, metabolism, and cellular regulation The students also take part in directed self education (DSE) sessions. The DSE sessions are intended to train students in researching and extracting information from the literature which complements the core lecture material.
Lectures, laboratory practicals, whole group tutorials, DSE.
Written exam - January 10% Written exam - June 70% DSE 20%
In the event of a re-sit examination in September, the DSE mark of 20% is carried forward and the re-sit examination paper count for 80%
No single textbook covers the entire Unit. However one of the following would be useful :
Biochemistry. Berg, Tymoczko, and Stryer. 7th Edition. 2011. W. H. Freeman & Co. This is an excellent, well-illustrated and readable book which we use extensively as a source for lectures. However, it is thin on the veterinary angle.
Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations. T.M. Devlin. 7th Edition. 2011. Wiley-Liss, Inc. Devlin is slightly larger than Berg et al. and has been written with medical rather than veterinary students in mind. It has a large number of clinical applications of Biochemistry.
Metabolic Regulation. K. N. Frayn. 3rd Edition. 2010. Blackwell Science Ltd. This is excellent for the second half of the Unit.
Several copies of these books are held in the library.
