University Madras Syllabus New Addition
University of Madras is formed on the model of the University of London, was organized on 5 September 1857 through an Act of the Legislative Council of India, and is regulated by the University Grants Commission of the government of India. University of Madras is located in the southern city of Chennai as well known as Madras.
Syllabus of Bms C417 : Biochemistry – I Credits: 4 (New Addition)
Unit I
pH, acids, bases and buffers, Henderson – Hasselbach equation, osmotic pressure, Donnan membrane equilibrium, surface tension, viscosity and their biological applications, Thermodynamics of biological systems, first, second and third laws of thermodynamics, enthalpy, entropy, free energy change and high energy compounds.
Unit II
Carbohydrates – Classification of carbohydrates, structure and properties of biologically important monosaccharides and disaccharides; Structure and function of homoglycans like starch, glycogen, cellulose, chitin and heteropolysaccharides like glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins and bacterial cell wall polysaccharides.
Unit III
Aminoacids – Classification, structure and properties of aminoacids, biological derivatives of amino acids, peptide bond, classification and properties of proteins (electrophoretic mobility, salting in and salting out), primary, secondary, tertiary, quarternary structure of proteins and forces stabilizing them, Ramachandran Plot, Isolation, purification and sequencing of proteins.
Unit IV
Lipids – Classification, structure and functions of lipids and lipoproteins, properties of fatty acids and fats. Vitamins – Properties, functions as coenzymes and deficiency states of water and fat soluble vitamins. Minerals and trace elements.
Unit V
Nucleic acids – Structure of purine and pyrimidine bases, structure of DNA, tRNA and mRNA. Viscosity, hyperchromic effect, melting point of DNA, Chemical and enzymatic methods of sequencing of nucleic acids.
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