Intermediary metabolism

bluedevilmike
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:05:52 +0000

NCG is understating the case a little, I think. We covered it in four days at my school, but that was as one of four classes – four days, yes, but while we were also balancing gross anatomy, physiology, and histology. So four days, sure, but that was about 1/5th of what we learned in those four days. (Gross anatomy, in my subjective weighting, counts double.)

And we weren’t tested on every single intermediate/enzyme/name, but we certainly could have been tested on any given one of them. We did NOT have to push electrons, if that’s what you mean by “each step of reactions.” Moreover, we had to learn the associated diseases, breakdowns in the pathways, the regulation and regulators involved, and the relevant feedback cycles.

Any of us who had taken biochem in college found that it was useless. My undergrad biochem class covered DNA replication, the TCA cycle, glycolysis, and kinetics. Those all came up again, but in much more depth… and with a lot of other stuff, too.