Course Description
In this class, you will master fundamental biochemical principles and use this knowledge to solve biochemical problems.  

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Measures 
Below are the course’s learning outcomes, followed by the methods that will be used to assess students’ achievement for each learning outcome. By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• apply thermodynamic principles to biochemical reactions;
• understand the relationship between structure and function in biological molecules;
• name and classify the four primary types of biological molecules (proteins, sugars, lipids, and nucleic acids);
• understand the biochemical methods that are used to analyze biological molecules;
• understand how reaction rates are increased in biological processes;
• understand how biomolecular activity is regulated by chemical modification and intermolecular interactions;
• discover how receptor proteins and enzymes communicate in signaling pathways to control how a cell responds to its environment .