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INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE / KİM615 - TEKLİF EDİLEN KIMYA (DOKTORA)

Code: KİM615 Course Title: NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 3rd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department TEKLİF EDİLEN KIMYA (DOKTORA)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer CEVAHİR ALTINKAYNAK (caltinkaynak@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) CEVAHİR ALTINKAYNAK,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to learn the structure, function, digestion, and absorption of nucleic acids, as well as the synthesis and degradation of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can learn basic concepts about macromolecules. PO-1 Develop advanced theoretical and applied knowledge in the field, depending on undergraduate and graduate qualifications.
PO-2 Can make connections between different disciplines and sub-fields that their field is related to by using their expert knowledge and skills, work in harmony in research groups.
PO-3 Can closely follow national and international developments in the field of chemistry.
Examination
Presentation
Term Paper
LO-2 Can learn Purine and Pyrimidine metabolism. PO-4 Can systematically follow up-to-date information in the field.
PO-5 Can have the ability to search literature, make presentations, design and prepare experimental setups, and interpret the relevant results.
PO-6 Can has a scientific and professional ethical understanding and can defend this understanding in any environment.
PO-7 Can develop new ideas and methods with different perspectives by using high-level competencies such as suggesting solutions to problems that arise in the field and making decisions.
Examination
Presentation
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LO-3 Can learn the structure and function of nucleotides. PO-7 Can develop new ideas and methods with different perspectives by using high-level competencies such as suggesting solutions to problems that arise in the field and making decisions.
PO-8 Can design theoretical, experimental, or modeling-based research that will contribute to progress in the field, develop new scientific methods, and apply a known method to a different field.
PO-9 Can produce solutions to social, scientific, and ethical issues by combining their own knowledge and perspective with up-to-date information about their field.
PO-10 Can propose solutions to the problems that arise in her field and in different disciplines, take initiative in decision-making processes, and lead research groups.
Examination
Presentation
Term Paper
LO-4 Can learn protein synthesis. PO-11 Can contributes to the progress in the field by transforming the studies in her field into scientific articles and publishing them in national and/or international refereed journals.
PO-12 Can contribute to the scientific, technological, and social progress of society by following and transferring the developments in their field.
PO-13 can defend their original views with experts in the discussion of issues in their field at international platforms and can communicate effectively, showing their competence in the field
PO-14 Able to communicate at an advanced level in written and oral communication in at least one foreign language.
Examination
Presentation
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
This course includes information about the synthesis, function, degradation, and especially protein synthesis of heterocyclic purine and purimidine in the structure of nucleic acids, which are essential substances for all cells.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Overview Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
2 Nucleotides Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
3 Nucleic acid structure and function Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
4 Synthesis of Purine Nucleotides Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
5 Degradation of Purine Nucleotides Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
6 Pyrimidine Synthesis Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
7 Degradation of Pyrimidine Nucleotides Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
8 mid-term exam
9 Synthesis of thymidine monophosphate by dUMP Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
10 DNA structure and replication Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
11 RNA structure and replication Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
12 Protein synthesis and the Genetic Code Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
13 Components required for translation Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
14 Protein Synthesis Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
15 Protein Synthesis Explaining method, question and answer teaching method
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Nelson D. L., Cox M. M. (Kılıç, İ. (Ed.)) (2005). Lehninger Biyokimyanın İlkeleri, 3. Baskı. Ankara: Palme yayıncılık, 363-408.
2 Champe P.C., Harvey R.A. (2007). Lippincott's Biochemistry, 4th Edition.
3 Murray R., Granner D., Mayes P. A., Rodwell V. W. (2003). Harper Biochemistry, the McGraw-Hill Companies.
Required Course instruments and materials
Books

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 30
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation 15 1 20
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper 11 2 20
9.Project
final exam 16 2 30

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 4 8 32
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 8 32
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 3 6 18
       e) Term paper/Project 3 6 18
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 4 8
mid-term exam 7 1 7
Own study for final exam 4 4 16
final exam 7 1 7
0
0
Total work load; 180