Biochemistry is a new Honors-level course which integrates biology with chemical engineering. This is an exciting career field that includes drug discovery, genetic treatment of disease, and also includes biotechnology as applies to plants and foods.
This course is ideal for a serious student wishing to broaden his/her horizons, and explore the Biochemistry field with this introductory high school course.
Every module contains labs and projects, providing the student with the opportunity to internalize the new concepts.
After a treatment of molecular forces and solution properties, the course builds on molecular and energetic descriptions of fundamental monomeric building blocks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the biological function of polymers and molecular assemblies at the molecular and cellular level.
In addition to multiple case studies, the course concludes with a capstone exercise that leads students through the steps required to produce recombinant proteins for drug discovery.
This course also includes the application of differential calculus. Students will be provided with interactive tools and calculators for graphing the functions.