Biochemical Calculations
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The official GTU curriculum for Biochemical Calculations (subject code 2180409) as prescribed for Biotech · Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 34 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2180409)Unit 1 UNIT I
- Acid Base Chemistry: Aqueous solutions
- Equillibrium constants
- Acids and Bases
- Laboratory Buffers
- Amino acids and peptides
- Blood Buffers
- Practice Problems
Unit 2 UNIT II
- Chemistry of Biological Molecules: Amino acids
- peptides and proteins
- Nucleotides and Nucleic acids
- Practice Problems
Unit 3 UNIT III
- Biochemical Energetics: Energy yielding and energy requiring reactions
- Calculations of Equillibrium Concentrations
- Oxidation Reduction Reactions
- Metabolism and ATP yield
- Photosynthetic phosphorylation
- Active Transport
- Enthalpy and Entropy
- Activation Energy
- Practice Problem
Unit 4 UNIT IV
- Enzymes: Enzymes as Biological Catalysts
- enzyme kinetics
- reaction order
- methods of plotting enzyme kinetics data
- enzyme inhibition
- effect of pH on enzyme stability and activity
- enzyme assays
- multisubstrate enzymes and kinetic mechanisms
- multisite and allosteric enzymes
- enzyme turnover
- Practice problems
Unit 5 UNIT V
- Spectrophotometry and other optical methods: Spectrophotometry
- Optical Rotation
- Practice Problems
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