This course is designed to
expose students to biochemical practical experiences through practical sessions
to gain basic skills and techniques necessary for laboratory investigation. The
students are expected to study living systems in an experimental approach and
undertake practicals on organisms too including plants and microbes, with focus
on DNA, proteins, and other biomolecules. This course is expected to prepare
the students for advanced practical sessions in biochemistry in subsequent
years which may include; drugs and the nervous system; molecular genetics; cells
and genes; organisms and their environment, and investigating inside the
cells-DNA, and proteins.