Biochemistry and Metabolism: Free Course

About this course

Connect enzyme behavior with the major metabolic pathways in this free Ninja Nerd course. All thirty-four biochemistry recordings are preserved, including the full numbered electron-transport-chain, fatty-acid-synthesis and fatty-acid-oxidation explanations. The course also includes integrated carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolic-map reviews.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Explore the recorded enzyme-kinetics and inhibition explanations.
• Follow carbohydrate metabolism and energy-production pathways.
• Connect lipid, amino-acid, urea-cycle and nucleotide topics with the wider metabolic picture.
• Use the three metabolic-map reviews to organize relationships between pathways.

Skills you’ll gain

• Biochemistry concepts
• Enzyme kinetics
• Carbohydrate metabolism
• Lipid metabolism
• Protein metabolism
• Pathway integration

Course Overview

The first three recordings introduce enzyme kinetics and inhibition before the sequence moves into metabolism. Glycolysis, its regulation, the transition stage, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain establish an energy-related foundation. Glycogen, gluconeogenesis and the pentose phosphate pathway broaden the carbohydrate discussion. Fatty-acid synthesis and oxidation, triglycerides, ketones, cholesterol and lipoproteins provide the lipid section, while amino-acid metabolism, the urea cycle and nucleotide synthesis complete the larger set. Three metabolic-map recordings support integration. Every source video is retained, including both overview and detailed versions where present. This is the published biochemical-pathway teaching edition, not a full assessed biochemistry degree or a laboratory training program.

How to study the course

• Study the enzyme recordings before the pathway lessons. Keep the meaning of a kinetic explanation separate from the name of a metabolic process.
• Work through the carbohydrate and energy-production sequence, preserving the numbered detailed parts. Use a small pathway sketch to connect the explanations.
• Continue with lipid, protein and nucleotide topics, then revisit the three metabolic maps. Explain a connection between pathways instead of memorizing each diagram in isolation.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

This course suits biology, biochemistry and health-science students who want a connected metabolic review. It is especially helpful when pathway names are familiar but their regulation and relationships remain difficult to organize.

Before you start

Introductory chemistry, cell biology and comfort with molecular terminology are recommended. Use a notebook and allow time for repeated diagrams. Video study does not include laboratory instruction, provider membership notes, graded assessments or individual medical or nutrition advice.

Put the lessons into practice

Choose a small set of pathways from the carbohydrate, lipid and protein sections and build a study map showing their educational relationships. Mark where the course discusses regulation and where it provides an overview or a detailed part. Explain one connection aloud without listing every reaction, then check your reasoning against the source lecture. Add a separate note for a kinetic concept that influences how you understand a pathway. Finish by revisiting the relevant metabolic-map video and identifying one relationship you can now describe more clearly.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Ninja Nerd. Videos play from the Ninja Nerd channel on YouTube.