BIOENGR C204
Physical Chemistry of Biomacromolecules
Bioengineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
To understand biological materials and design synthetic replacements, it is imperative to understand their physical chemistry. Biomacromolecules such as protein or DNA can be analyzed and characterized by applying fundamentals of polymer physical chemistry. Investigation of polymer structure and conformation, bulk and solution thermodynamics and phase behavior, polymer networks, and viscoelasticity. Application of engineering principles to problems involving biomacromolecules such as protein conformation, solvation of charged species, and separation and characterization of biomacromolecules. Concurrently scheduled with course C104.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Chemistry 20A, 20B, 30A, Life Sciences 7A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
BIOENGR C204
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
BIOENGR C204
- BIOENGR C207Polymer Chemistry for Bioengineers
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





