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Your entire exam will be regarded and it may result in a lower grade. Exams written in pencil WILL NOT be regarded. Inclement weather: Official University closures and delays are announced on the campus website and snow phone line (301-405-SNOW) as well as local radio and TV stations. If the University is closed or dismissed due to inclement weather, this course will not be held. Appropriate replacement data will be provided to provide students for analysis in their lab reports. In the event that bustiest data is not available, the possible points for that portion of the assignment will be reduced. Religious observances: The University of Maryland policy on religious observance states that you should not be penalized in any way for participation in religious observances and that, whenever feasible, you should be allowed to makeup academic assignments that are missed due to such absences. However, you must personally provide a written notification of the projected absence by Friday, February 3rd. Academic integrity and student conduct: This course is part of the University’s academic community, whose fundamental purpose is the pursuit of knowledge.
Essential to the fundamental purpose of the University, this course and scientists in general is a commitment to the principles of truth and academic honesty. Accordingly, the Code of Academic Integrity is designed to ensure that the principle of academic honesty is upheld. While all members of the University share this responsibility, the Code of Academic Integrity is designed so that special responsibility for upholding the principle of academic honesty lies with the students. Honor pledge: The University has a nationally recognized Honor Code, administered y the Student Honor Council.
The Student Honor Council proposed and the University Senate approved an Honor Pledge. The University of Maryland Honor Pledge reads: “l pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this assignment/examination. ” The Honor Council sets high standards for academic integrity, and I support its efforts. Please note that you will be asked to write and sign the University Honor Pledge on papers and examinations submitted in this course, as specified above.
Unless you are specifically advised to the contrary, the Pledge statement should be handwritten and signed on he front cover of all papers, projects, or other academic assignments submitted for evaluation in this course. Students who fail to write and sign the Pledge will be asked to explain . Cook AT student conduct. students are expected to treat can toner Walt respect in the classroom and in the laboratory. Disruptive behavior of any kind will not be tolerated.
Students who are unable to show civility with one another, the teaching assistants, or myself will be subject to referral to the Office of Student Conduct and/or to Campus Police. You are expected to adhere to the Code of Student Conduct. Students with disabilities: I support the University of Marshland’s mission to inform students with disabilities about the process for accessing reasonable accommodations. As members of the University community, reasonable accommodations are available for students with a documented disability.
If you have a disability and may need accommodations to fully participate in this class, please contact me as soon as possible to discuss your needs but no later than Friday February 3rd. All accommodations MUST be approved through Disability Support services (ADS) the counseling center, (301) 314-7682. 4 Intellectual property: The lectures delivered in this class and course materials, including the power point presentations, tests, outlines, and similar materials, are protected by federal copyright law. You are permitted to take notes of lectures and to use course materials for your use in this course.
You are not authorized to reproduce or distribute notes of lectures or any course materials or make any commercial use of them without express written consent. 5 Recommended Strategies for Successful Learning: Biochemistry courses are notorious for demanding a high-volume of information in a short amount of time. The pace of this course is rapid and is somewhat like taking a drink from a fire hose. The pace will sometimes seem frenetic and the detail required for full mastery will often seem overwhelming. The remainder of this syllabus contains advice for successfully mastering BACCHUS content.
Biochemistry is a contact sport! If you have not properly trained throughout the semester, you will come out a battered, bruised and bloody victim of the exams. What must you do then to learn efficiently and effectively? To excel, you must succeed in visualizing complex relationships, memorizing detailed acts, and reciting numerous metabolic reactions of the human body. The tips below are compiled from a variety of sources to help you perform at your highest level: 1) Do NOT procrastinate! Biochemistry courses build on fundamental concepts from many disciplines.
Moreover, many pathways and reactions require memorization and must be acquired over time. The last thing you want to do is cram for this course. Try to identify early any background areas in which you are deficient. This will allow time for you to review that material and not fall behind in this course. A strong grasp of enlister concepts, general Ana organic, Is essential to succession In tans course. 2 Read the book and the end of chapter problems before coming to lecture. The more time you spend in contact with the material, the more likely it is that you will succeed.
I once had an instructor whose favorite saying was “Repetition is a condition of learning. ” I hated when she said it. Now, however, I understand that she was right. The more often you do something, the more likely you are to do it correctly. 3) Know biochemistry terminology and nomenclature. An enzyme or protein will often have its unction built into its name. For example, the enzyme named lactate dehydrogenate. Proteins that are dehydrogenates always oxidize a substrate. In this case, it oxidized lactate into private.
Once you get this down, you will begin to recognize names and automatically correlate them with a specific function. 4) Start with the big picture. This course requires that you memorize multi-step metabolic pathways. The best way to do this is to start with the easy steps and understand the overall flow of the reaction. First, write only the substrates, enzymes, cofactors, and products in order or the entire pathway. Do this repeatedly until it is memorized. Sometimes, this will require you to combine multiple figures from the textbook into a single pathway.
When you are able to consistently reproduce the entire pathway, it is time to add the most challenging component: regulation. Write out your pathway and draw in the regulatory components until you have mastered them. 5) Know the purpose of a reaction. Take the Boor Effect for example. An increase in [H+] (decrease in pH), CO, temperature, and 2,3-BGP all occur in active skeletal muscle. They also all encourage 02 release from hemoglobin. This makes sense if you think that working muscle needs oxygen to survive.
Incorporating the larger purpose of a reaction will allow you to predict the flow of reactions in other situations throughout the body. 6 6) Know how to interpret the graphs and plots. These questions are essentially free points on exams because all the information you need to solve them is included . Know what the sand y-intercept, the slope, and the area under the graph represent. Know what makes the graphed line move to the right, left, higher or lower. You will absolutely be asked about the Michaels-Mitten enzyme kinetics graph and the Hemoglobin dissociation curve – these are staples of biochemistry. ) Seek to understand first, and then memorize. Biochemistry is overwhelming at first. There is no easy way to memorize every amino acid or metabolic reaction. But students always claim that if they take the time to first get the concept down, the memorizing is not as difficult as it once seemed. Stay focused! Break it down into small steps, and practice. 8) Do not forget what you have learned in other classes. This course is a chemistry course and requires that you both recall and use information learned in your general and organic chemistry courses. 7