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| VETE0004-1 | Biochemistry of Domestic Animals I | |||||
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| Duration : | 40h Th, 24h Pr, 20h TD | |||||
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Marie Godeau | |||||
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| Course contents : | Biomolecules are described successively, beginning with water. Proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and at last nucleic acids come after. | |||||
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| Course objective : | To bring the students up to the required standard of education by giving a basic teaching in biochemistry. The course enters the matter in a descriptive way, refreshes the knowledges learned in secondary school and first candidature ; it also puts the emphasis on basic knowledge the student will need to comprehend, in the second doctorate, the course of Pathological Biochemistry and Clinical Biology, and especially special features of the different species. On the other hand, the chapter of the course that deals with nucleic acids is not given in a descriptive way, but in lectures form, where discoveries are explained in a chronological order, starting with laboratory methods and protocols used by the research teams from that time. The purpose of that part is to teach the students how to think correctly in view of the practical problems encountered by the researchers. | |||||
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| Prerequisites : | Basic knowledge of organic chemistry. | |||||
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| Organization : | The course is given according to the general structure as described above. The 30% time reduction in schedule (since the academic year 2001 - 2002) leads to a reduction in the matter that can concerns one or another part of the content described above. Practical works (TP) are organised as part of the Laboratory of Clinical Biology's activities : the exercises were thought to allow the student to realize what techniques are used in clinical biology. Supervised works (TD) are organised with a view to allow the student to assimilate the course matter and to acquaint him-/herself with the parts of the course that are not tought further to the schedule reduction. | |||||
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| Written notes : | Lecture notes correspond to the documents the lecturer uses during his classes (slides or notes). Students receive copies of these notes. According to student's comprehension during the lecture and modifications of his/her knowledge, the notes are modified year by year. So the student must purchase the last version of the course that the professor gave at the beginning of the year. New information, coming from scientific litterature (but not the books suggested for reading) are added to the course as original papers get published, when they bring some new relevant features in Veterinary Medicine. Consequently, the student's attendance to lectures allows her/him to complete the notes he received at the beginning of the year. Reference Books (only basics) : LEHNINGER's "Biochemistry", and STRYER's "Biochemistry" (Freeman, 1998 edit.) (availables at the library). "The Biochemistry of the nucleic acids" of Adams, Knowler et Leader (1986 edit.). | |||||
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| Assessment : | Final exams are written. The student must answer to specific questions that cover the matter given during the academic year. The answers to the questions are quoted in a positive manner. | |||||
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| Contacts : | JM Godeau, and the assistants who will be in office in 2004-2005, among them Mrs Marie-France Humblet. | |||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 8/04/2005
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