Instructor Information

Instructor	Email	Office Location & Hours
Dr. Rana Al- Hallak	Rhallak7@yahoo.com	2h. theoretical + 2h. practical

General Information

Description

At the end of the course the students will be able to correlate organ's physiology with biochemical basis of their function, to understand the role of some biomolecules in metabolism, as well as, to correlate biochemistry with previous general biological sciences which they had before.

Expectations and Goals

Students are supposed to focus on the following:

1- To study the structure and classification of amino acids and proteins

2- Pathways of amino acids metabolism

3- The role of enzymes as catalysts

4- Vitamins

5- Pituitary gland hormones and their metabolism

Language(s) of Instruction: Arabic and English

Textbook(s) Language(s): English

Course Materials

1-Lippincott’s illustrated review – 5th edition, R. Harvey, D. Ferrier

and

2- Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry,5th edition, David L. Nelson and Michael M. Cox

Course Schedule

	Week	Topic	Reading	Exercises

1	15/9- 19/9	Introduction
2	22/9- 26/9	Types and classification o amino acids
3	29/9- 3/10	Protein structures
4	6/10- 10/10	Hemoglobin metabolism
5	13/10- 17/10	Synthesis of essential amino acids
6	20/10- 24/10	Catabolism of carbon skeleton of amino acid
7	27/10- 31/10	First quiz
8	3/11- 7/11	Urea cycle
9	10/11- 14/11	Enzymes
10	17/11- 21/11	Water-soluble vitamins
11	24/11- 24/11	Lipid-soluble vitamins
12	1/12- 5/12	Hormones (1)
13	8/12- 12/12	Second quiz+ Hormones(2)
14 15	15/12- 19/12 22/12- 26/12	Hormones (3) Review

Testing Schedule

test	Date	Subject	Reading	Type	language	% of final grade
Quiz 1 Quiz 2	29.10 20.12	Amino acids Enzymes and Vit.		Written Written	Arabic/English Arabic/English	10 10
Final Exam Lab. Work	5/1	All learned theory		MCQ written	Arabic Arabic	50 30

General Biochemistry II