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COURSE SYMBOL AND NO : BCH 350
COURSE TITLE : PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY
CRIDIT HOURE : 2(2+0)
PREREQUISITE : BCH 101
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Course Description:
The plant cell wall, its biochemical composition and formation. Photosynthesis - Light phase, cyclic and non-cyclic photophosphorylation. Dark phase; C3 and C4 pathways. Respiration and oxidative phophorylation. Biosynthesis of polysaccharides and chlorophyll. Nitrogen fixation, transport of nitrogenous compounds and their stage.
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1 |
Structure and function of the plant cell
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2 - 4 |
The plant cell wall and its chemical composition: polysaccharides, lignin and proteins. Physical composition of higher plant and algal cell wall.
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5 - 10 |
Photosynthesis, photosynthetic organism, light phase, Dark phase of photosynthesis .The C4 photosynthetic pathway starch and sucrose metabolism in photosynthetic cells transport of light generated ATP into cytoplasm. Crassulacean acid metabolism.
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11 - 15 |
Respiration, oxidation phosphorylation . Nature of the terminal electron transport chain. Coupling of phosphorylation to electron transport.
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16 - 19 |
Biosynthesis of oligosaccharide. Biosynthesis of polysaccharide starch phytoglycogen fructose hemicelluloses.
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20 - 22 |
Nitrogen fixation transport storage of n2. non –protein amino acid protein of seeds leave and other planet protein.
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