1. Contact me at kgahern@davincipress.com / Friend me on Facebook (kevin.g.ahern)
2. Download my free biochemistry book at http://biochem.science.oregonstate.edu/biochemistry-free-and-easy
3. Take my free iTunes U course at https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/biochemistry/id556410409
4. Check out my free book for pre-meds at http://biochem.science.oregonstate.edu/biochemistry-free-and-easy
5. Course video channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/oharow/videos?view=1
6. Check out all of my free workshops at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlnFrNM93wqyTiCLZKehU1Tp8rNmnOWYB&feature=view_all
7. Check out my Metabolic Melodies at http://www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html
8. Take my courses for credit (wherever you live) via OSU's ecampus. For details, see http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/soc/ecatalog/ecourselist.htm?termcode=all&subject=BB
9. Course materials at http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/bb350
Lecture Highlights
1. All students need to read the course syllabus. You can download it from the Schedule page.
2. Biochemistry as a science is relatively new, at least in its present form.
3. Our understanding of the basis of life has evolved from examining the organism as the foundation of life down to cells, then down to organelles, and then finally down to molecules.
4. Molecules are the foundation of life and are the basis of molecular biology.
5. Prokaryotes (bacteria) differ from eukaryotes in the composition of their cells. Eukyaryotes have organelles and prokaryotes do not. Eukaryotes include yeast (single celled, dog, cats, plants, humans, and more). All prokaryotes are unicellular.
6. The nucleus holds DNA, chromosomes, and RNA. The mitochondrion is involved in energy production. The chloroplast is involved in photosynthesis in plants.
7. Cells have a cytoskeleton, which to a cell what a skeleton is to you.
8. Cells require energy to exist. There are many reasons for this, but one is the need to counter the forces of entropy.
9. Cells store energy in ATP for immediate use. The potential energy stored in ATP arises from the replusion of the negatively charged phosphates for each other.
10. The building blocks of DNA and RNA are nucleotides. The building blocks of protein are amino acids. There are 20 amino acids in proteins.
