mitty
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STUDY
SUGGESTIONS
Read for understanding.
Read only what you don't know.
Organize, organize, organize
Understand the concepts first.
Make notes instead of highlighting everything.
Studying and Exams:
Organize, understand, condense, memorize.
Always remember that it is possible to be a worthwhile human being regardless of how much biochemistry you know. This won't necessarily help you with biochemistry, but it may help you keep your sanity.
Minimize the amount of material that you have to memorize.
If you understand a general concept, you can often figure out the specific details rather than memorize them.
Arrange notes and study time in order of decreasing importance.
Learn the important things first.
For each topic write down a summary of the really important concepts. Don't write down things you already know, just the things you're likely to forget. Use lots of diagrams that have meaning for you. Use them extensively. Exclude the trivia from your studies. An information sorter is provided below.
You should consider this the minimal
information for understanding this portion of the course.
INFORMATION SORTER
1. Purpose of a pathway - what's the overall
function?
2. Names of molecules going into and coming out of the
pathway
3. How the pathway fits in with other pathways.
4. General metabolic conditions under which the pathway is
stimulated or inhibited.
5. Identify, by enzyme name, the control points - steps of
the pathway that are regulated.
6. Identify, by molecule name, the general regulatory
molecules and the direction in which they push the metabolic
pathway.
7. Names of reactants and products for each regulated enzyme
and each enzyme making or using ATP equivalents (e.g., NADH, GTP,
FADH).
8. Essential vitamins and cofactors involved in the pathway
9. Consequences of enzyme deficiencies discussed during
lecture.
10. Specific molecules that inhibit or activate specific
enzymes. Cleaned up all of the little webbies because I found the info very useful.
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| coolmavs
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Hey mitty, great post! Seems to make a lot of sense. Will try and implement it straight away (But as they say old habits die hard)!
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| krsna
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right said coolmavs...ol' habits do die hard!!!
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