Marks distribution

  • Written = 200 (Formative- 20+MCQ (SBA+MTF) 40+(SAQ+SEQ) 140)
  • SOE = 100
  • Practical = 100 (OPSE- 50+ Traditional- 40+ Assignment- 10)

 

Core:

  • Introduction to Biochemistry
  • Concept of solutions
  • Colloids and crystalloids
  • Concept of isotope
  • Concept of Biomolecules: Carbohydrates
  • Amino acids and proteins
  • Lipids and fatty acids
  • Enzymes

Core:

  • Basic concepts of food, nutrition, and dietary principles
  • Energy balance and calculation of energy equivalent of food
  • Nutritional aspects of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, Fibers
  • Vitamins and Minerals
  • Common Nutritional Disorders

 

Digestion, Absorption, Bioenergetics and Metabolism

Core:

  • Introduction to Metabolism
  • Biological oxidation, respiratory chain, and oxidative phosphorylation
  • High and low energy compounds. ATP
  • The phase of metabolism (digestion, absorption, and intermediary metabolism)
  • Glycolysis
  • Citric acid cycle
  • Glycogenesis and glycogenolysis
  • Hexose monophosphate shunt
  • Gluconeogenesis
  • Blood glucose homeostasis
  • Cori cycle