Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to study the laws of chemical reactions at a molecular level to better understand the biological world. Students will study how structure affects function in water, amino acids, peptides, proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, nucleotides, nucleic acids, and lipids. They will study the processes and regulation of processes through glycolysis, fatty acid catabolism, the citric acid cycle, lipid biosynthesis and hormonal regulation. Finally, students will learn how the structure and function of genes, chromosomes, DNA, RNA, and other proteins affect metabolism.