Preface

Students often view Biochemistry as a pile of facts or equations to be memorized rather than as concepts to be understood. The author proposes to create a series of concept and knowledge maps about the biochemical contents to illustrate graphically the relationships between the ideas presented in a given proposed chapter, as well as to show how information can be grouped or organized.

In order to facilitate the student’s understanding of the metabolic pathways and providing greater interaction with the contents, an approach to better learning metabolic diagrams will be developed through:

1. Flow diagrams and illustrations: showing substrates and enzymes of the metabolic pathways, their control, inhibition, role of vitamins in their correct functioning, and their connection with other systems
2. Reading the functions and characteristics of metabolic pathways in illustrations
3. Solving of essay and multiple-choice questions
4. Recent advances and applied aspects of biochemistry, applied therapeutics and microbiology will be discussed

Also, students will be encouraged to make their own flow diagrams and tables and sample questions will be provided to improve their analytical skills.

As a learning tool, it can be used by the student to, e.g., making notes, solving problems, planning the study and/or writing of essays, preparing for examinations, and identifying the connection of topics.