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CHEM 153CBiochemistry: Biosynthetic and Energy Metabolism and Its Regulation

Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Metabolism of carbohydrates, fatty acids, amino acids, and lipids; photosynthetic metabolism and assimilation of inorganic nutrients; regulation of these processes.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisite: course 153A or 153AH.

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one of
  • CHEM 153A
  • CHEM 153AH

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

CHEM 153C

  • CHEM 153ABiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism
    • CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
      • CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules1 more beneath
    • CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
      • CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity1 more beneath
  • CHEM 153AHBiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism (Honors)
    • CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticalsanother path to it
    • CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopyanother path to it

2 direct requisites. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

CHEM 153C

  • CHEM C165Metabolic Control by Protein Modification
  • CHEM C265Metabolic Control by Protein Modification
  • CHEM 269AProtein Structure
  • CHEM 269BBiocatalysis and Bioenergetics
  • CHEM 269CNucleic Acid Structure and Catalysis
  • CHEM 269DMechanism and Regulation of Gene Expression
  • CHEM 269EBiomolecular Structure, Catalysis, and Regulation

7 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.