BYM713 - BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY IN LIFE SCIENCES
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY IN LIFE SCIENCES | BYM713 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| Prequisites | - | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lokman Uzun | |||||
| Course objective | The aim of the course is to give basic knowledge about organic chemistry to the student, to learn the fundamental organic reactions in biological systems and organic pathways of biomolecules. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | The content of the course is to give basic knowledge about organic chemistry to the student, simple heteroatomic compounds, organic molecules in view of biological science, relation between shape and structure, basic reaction in life science, biooragnic reactions of biomolecules, enzymes and their kinetic models, metal ions in organic reactions. | |||||
| References | ? Ders notları ? Güncel yayınlar ? D.L Nelson and M.M. Cox, ?Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry? 4th ed., W.H Freeman, (2005), NY, USA. (İngilizce baskı ve Türkçe çeviri (3. baskı)) ? J. Crowe, T. Bradshaw, ?Chemistry for the Biosciences: The Essential Concepts?, 2nd Ed. (2010), Oxford Univesity Press Inc., USA. ? H. Dugas, ?Bioorganic Chemistry a Chemical Approach to Enzyme Action?, 3rd Ed., (1996), Springer-Verlag, N.Y., USA. ? P.W. Groundwater, G.A. Taylor, Organic Chemistry for Students of Health and Life Sciences?, 4th Ed., (1997), Pearson Education Ltd., Essex, England. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | First meeting and general information about course and its structure |
| Week 2 | Basic Principles in Bioorganic Chemistry: Atomic-Molecular Structure / Nomenclature / Stereochemistry and Mechanism |
| Week 3 | Oxygene and Sulphur Containing Simple Organic Compounds: Alcohols ? Phenols ? Ethers and Their sulphur analogs ? Carbonyl Compounds: Aldehydes ? Ketones ? Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives ? Nitrogene Compounds: Amines |
| Week 4 | Bioorganic Compounds: Carbohydrates ? Amino Acids/Protens ? Aromatic Compounds/Nucleic Acids ? Lipids and Fatty Acids |
| Week 5 | Molecular Interactions: Holding it all together ? Organic Compounds: the framework of life |
| Week 6 | Molecular Shape and Structure Isomerism |
| Week 7 | Chemical Analysis ? Energy ? Kinetic ? Equilibrium ? Acids, Bases, and the Aqueous Environment: the medium of life |
| Week 8 | Chemical Reactions: Bringing molecules to life ? Chemical Reactions: reaction mechanism driving the chemistry of life |
| Week 9 | Bioorganic Chemistry of Amino Acids and Polypeptides ? Biooragnic Chemistry of Phosphate Groups and Polynucleotides |
| Week 10 | Enzyme Chemsitry and Enzyme Models ? Metal Ions and Coenzyme Chemistry |
| Week 11 | Mid-Term |
| Week 12 | Student presentation (hot topics in bioorganic chemistry) |
| Week 13 | Student presentation (hot topics in bioorganic chemistry) |
| Week 14 | Student presentation (hot topics in bioorganic chemistry) |
| Week 15 | Preparation to final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 14 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 3 | 5 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 1 | 5 |
| Midterms | 1 | 25 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 99 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 7 | 98 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 4 | 12 | 48 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 35 | 35 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 47 | 47 |
| Total Workload | 34 | 104 | 270 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Ability to understand and implement pure sciences, mathematics and engineering in higher level, | X | ||||
| 2. Ability to conduct intra- and inter-disciplinary studies; to gain required methodological skills for conducting the research, | X | ||||
| 3. Ability to analyse, synthesize and evaluate the current ideas and developments in the specialized area, | X | ||||
| 4. To have a qualification to conduct a comprehensive research that bringing new insights into science and technology, that leading to a novel methodology or technological product/process; or that leveraging a known methodology to another area, | X | ||||
| 5. To contribute to the scientific and technological literature by disseminating the outcomes of scientific studies in international and national academic grounds, | X | ||||
| 6. To evaluate the scientific, technological and social developments and to transfer them to the society by considering scientific neutrality and ethical responsibility, | X | ||||
| 7. Ability to have a verbal and written communication skills in at least one foreign language at a European Language Portfolio C1 General Level, | X | ||||
| 8. Ability to understand theeffects of engineering solutions and practice in the problems related to the biological systems and to build awareness of the legal outcomes. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest