GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

BIOCHEMICAL KINETICS/5191304

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Prof.Dr. Ahmet YAŞAR

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

www.gazi.edu.tr/~ayasar

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

ayasar@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Learning the basic concepts related to blood buffers, enzymes , enzyme kinetics, reaction order, methods of plotting enzyme kinetics data.

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Acid-base chemistry: aqueous solutions, equilibrium constants, acids and bases,
2. Week	Laboratory buffers, amino acids and peptitdes,
3. Week	Blood buffers
4. Week	Enzymes as biological catalyst,
5. Week	Enzyme kinetics,
6. Week	Reaction order,
7. Week	Reaction order,
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	Methods of plotting enzyme kinetics data,
10. Week	Enzyme inhibition,
11. Week	Enzyme inhibition,
12. Week	Effect of pH and temperature on enzyme stability and activity,
13. Week	Multisite and allosteric enzymes,
14. Week	Multisite and allosteric enzymes,
15. Week	Multisite and allosteric enzymes,
16. Week

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Textbooks of Biochemistry in Turkish and English

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	30
Assignment	1	10
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	3	16	48
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading			0
Searching in Internet and Library	6	6	36
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation	6	4	24
Presentation	1	2	2
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	6	5	30
Final and Studying for Final	6	8	48
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			188
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.52
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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