COURSE: BSC IN BIOCHEMISTRY

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the biochemistry industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Molecular and cell biology


• General physics


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introduction to microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to protein and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• Physical chemistry


• Organic chemistry


• Lipid and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Analytical chemistry


• Inorganic chemistry

Third year subjects:

• Biochemistry of proteins


• Proteome analysis


• Immunobiology


• Nutritional biochemistry


• Xeno biochemistry


• Enzymology

Careers: biochemist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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