Goodies Gale Rhodes Department of Chemistry
University of Southern Maine Portland, Maine 04104-9300 rhodes@usm.maine.edu
These pages are under construction. I will revise and add to them as my fall-semester course proceeds.
Please send me your comments, suggestions, and corrections.
Introduction
Here is a catch-all of illustrations, handouts, class problems, and demonstration outlines from my biochemistry class.
· STUDENTS: Come here to look again at class illustrations, or to replace lost handouts.
· TEACHERS: Please download and use anything that looks useful. Please request permission to use these resources in your teaching. Here's why.
· Goodies marked OPG are links to Other People's Goodies that I use in my course, and recommend highly.
NEW! Netscape Bookmarks For BiochemistryNEW!
1. Click here to download a Netscape preferences folder (you need Stuffit Expander).
2. Copy the folder to a floppy disk or your hard disk.
3.  Open the folder and double-click the icon named Go2Net to start Netscape.
When you use Go2Net, Netscape will always be configured to work correctly with this web site. In addition, you will find handy bookmarks for this site and many other useful biochemistry sites.
List of Goodies, By Course Topic Course Introduction
Cells
Water and Biomolecules
· DEMONSTRATION: Thermodynamics of Rubber-Band Contraction
Protein Sequence
· A Protein Sequencing Problem For Classroom Discussion
Protein Structure
· Learn to View Stereo Pairs
· Hill Plots for Myoglobin and Hemoglobin
· OPGHow To Grow Protein Crystals
· OPGPictures of Protein Crystals
· OPGFourier Transforms -- Relationship Between Diffraction Pattern and Molecular Structure.
· Strengths and Limitations of Crystallographic Models
· RasMol Users, YOU'VE BEEN WONDERING: How to Make RasMol Scripts Portable.
Enzyme Kinetics & Mechanism
· Clear, Step-By-Step Derivation of the Michaelis-Menten Equation
· Summary of Inhibition Types and Their Kinetic Effects
Lipids & Membranes
Bioenergetics & Metabolism
· Concentration and Activity (Plugging the Right Numbers Into Energy Calculations)
Monosaccharide Catabolism
Citric-Acid Cycle
Oxidative Phosphorylation
· Summary of DG calculations for Redox Reactions and Proton Gradients
Fatty-Acid & Amino-Acid Catabolism
Biosynthesis (Including Photosynthesis)
Metabolism in Mammals
DNA & Replication
· NEW DEMONSTRATION: Using Rubber Tubing to Demonstrate DNA Supercoiling and the Action of Topoisomerases (Article from The Chemical Educator)
RNA & Transcription
Translation: Protein Synthesis
Regulation of Gene Expression
Recombinant DNA Technology
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