Biochemistry and molecular biology : how life works / Teaching Company ; producer, Patricia Golden ; content developer, Jay Tate ; director, Roberto de Moraes.
Lecturer, Kevin Ahern, Phd, Oregon State University, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Title from container. Widescreen. "Course no. 9572." Contains 36 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes.
Contents:
disc 6. Omics : genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics. Why water is essential for life -- Amino acids : 20 building blocks of life -- From peptide bonds to protein structure -- Protein folding, misfolding, and disorder -- Hemoglobin function follows structure -- disc 2. Enzymes' amazing speed and specificity -- Enzyme regulation in cells -- Fatty acids, fats, and other lipids -- Sugars : glucose and the carbohydrates -- ATP and energy transformations in cells -- Breaking down sugars and fatty acids -- disc 3. Metabolism meets at the citric acid cycle -- Energy harvesting in animals and plants -- How animals make carbs and fats -- Cholesterol, membranes, lipoproteins -- Metabolic control during exercise and rest -- How plants make carbs and other metabolites -- disc 4. Recycling nitrogen : amino acids, nucleotides -- Eating, antioxidants, and the microbiome -- Hormones, stress, and cell division -- Neurotransmitters, the brain, and addiction -- The biochemistry of our senses -- From biochemistry to molecular biology -- disc 5. DNA and RNA : information in structure -- DNA replication in bacteria ; PCR in the lab -- Chromosome replication, telomeres, aging -- DNA mismatch and excision repair -- DNA recombination, gene editing, CRISPR -- Transcribing DNA to RNA -- disc 6. Translating RNA into proteins -- Protein-synthesis controls and epigenetics -- Human genetic disease and gene therapy -- Cancer mechanisms and treatments -- Biotechnology, stem cells, synthetic biology -- Omics : genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics.
Summary:
"Explore the building blocks of life: biochemistry and molecular biology"--Container
Series:
The great courses. Science & mathematics. Biochemistry
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