Lab in The Living Room
Lab in The Living Room

My plan

5/20/2024

My Plan

bruh

30/6/2024

What I need to do before (now)

  1. Refresh all of biology and chemistry A level (especially organic chemistry, and cell biology)

  2. Look over Studocu Biochemistry and write stuff on website / learn

How to Learn and Study:

  1. Learn the information (Textbook, YouTube, Lectures, researching online)

  2. Jotting down notes

  3. Active recall (Flashcards/quiz-let, past papers) [Use notes to create cards with AI]

  4. Mix up flashcards/questions with different subjects when revising (unless before a specific test)

  5. Revise the content consitently

Course Modules:
Chemistry:

  • Structure, Bonding & Equilibria

  • Principles of acid and base chemistry.

  • Organic molecules and their reactions (reaction mechanisms, and important classes of organic molecules (i.e. aromatics and carbonyls)

  • Introductory thermodynamics

  • Biochemical Thermodynamics

  • Chemical Equilibria, Enthalpy, Entropy, Gibbs free energy, van't Hoff plot, Biochemical Models, Calorimetry and Data Analysis

  • Bronsted acids and bases. pH, pKa, pKb, understanding titrations and amino acid structure.

  • Chemistry of the elements of the first row in the periodic table (Li-F) through study of their compounds with hydrogen.

  • Various primary and secondary bonding types, resulting in a wide range of molecular properties from reactive hydride salts through to highly inert gases and acidic and basic liquids.

  • Electron pair approach to covalent bonding.

  • Application to shape, stereoisomerism, bond energies and electronic effects in molecules.

  • Organic Structures & Mechanisms

  • Aromatic Chemistry and Organic Carbonyls

Biochemistry:

  • Structure and function of biomolecules of a cell (nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids)

  • Functionality and mechanisms of enzymes

  • Energy and metabolism (central role of ATP & coupling of biochemical processes: carbohydrate & lipid metabolism, photosynthesis and related metabolic processes in plants, and concludes with a section on the integration of metabolism)

  • Biochemical techniques such as chromatography and enzyme kinetics

  • Theoretical frameworks (such a Michaelis Menten kinetics, the laws of thermodynamics and the chemiosmotic theory)

  • Heterotrophic metabolism of carbohydrates & lipids and phototrophic metabolism and how they relate to energy metabolism via ATP

  • Relating biological molecules to health and disease and to their application in biotechnology

Bioscience