10007135Applied Chemistry for Biotechnology
Course Information
Description
This course covers topics in organic chemistry, biochemistry and physical chemistry with an emphasis on their application in the biotechnology laboratory.  Applied examples will be used from the fields of drug delivery, gene delivery, biopolymers, food chemistry and medicinal chemistry, to illustrate broader concepts such as intermolecular interactions, acid/base equilibria, thermodynamics and kinetics. Laboratory is included.
Total Credits
4
Course Competencies
  1. Identify intermolecular forces between two species and their impact on states of matter and solubility.

  2. Apply the types of intermolecular forces to biological systems.

  3. Apply collision theory to explain and classify reaction rates.

  4. Determine reaction order and rate law based upon experimental concentration change, and vice-versa

  5. Explain the general mechanism of enzymes as biological catalysts

  6. Explain the transfer of energy in chemical reactions

  7. Apply thermodynamics to the directionality of chemical reactions

  8. Describe characteristics of a system at equilibrium

  9. Explain different factors that affect equilibrium

  10. Apply concepts of solubility and equilibrium to the chemistry of solutes and solutions

  11. Explain the difference between concentration and strength of acid or base solutions.

  12. Explain the function and mechanism of buffer systems.

  13. Apply concepts of acid/base chemistry to systems encountered in biotechnology

  14. Apply concepts of redox chemistry to biological systems

This Outline is under development.