TASK 10: Self- Reflection on Biochemistry

Students write a letter to their lecturers (constructive comments on the teaching methods of their lecturers), reflect the activities that they have done with what they have learned and relate Biochemistry in their own programme and life.

    Firstly, I would like to thank our lecturer who guided us on this tasks for the course STB 1083 Biochemistry, Dr Dayang Salwani, Group 2. My name is Sherlis anak Linus with matric number of 67700 from Faculty of Resource Science and Technology (FRST). During class, Biochemistry is a very fun subject to be learn and the lecturer's teaching methods able to make the students to recall back every lessons that we have done on each passing weeks. The explanation provided in classes is much more understandable compared to the time when we read the notes for a basic understanding on what is going to be taught in classes.

From this learning course, Biochemistry, I was able to learn about the fundamentals regarding the biochemical principles including the structures and function of biomolecules. This includes the functions of amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids as well as properties of enzymes and its reactions and metabolism process that occurs in a human body.

In each task given, there are different types of activities needed to be done such as infographic, Youtube videos, mind maps as well as self-reflection regarding each topics learned in this courses. Different activities given has made each of the tasks to become more fun to be learned and from each activities done, it is much more understandable in our own way as we tried to extract the only important parts from the overall topics in Biochemistry. From detailed information included in each notes, we were able to categorized the points better from our own point of view. While doing every task, we also sometimes look for some extra information on the internet in order to have a better understanding on every topics discussed in each of the tasks.

In life, Biochemistry is much more important to be learned as this exposed us to information like how does the biomolecules around us affect our daily life. For instance, the daily food intake that consists of balanced amount of carbohydrates, fats, proteins as well as vitamins and minerals. Each of these food categories have their own good and bad impacts depending on the intake needed by each person. From this courses, we are also able to learn about the metabolism process that takes place in our body like Glycolysis, Electron Transport System, TCA cycle and Oxydative phosphorylation. We also learn on how does the enzymes works in our body especially when it comes to the process of providing energy to the body through breakdown of complex molecules into smaller units that can be easily absorbed into the bloodstream. Enzymes plays an important role when it comes to the regulation process in our body depending on how does the enzymes inhibited by a certain process or molecules as well as their different kind of characteristics owned by each enzymes.

I will look forward to learn much more things regarding Biochemistry as well as fun activities that going to be provided in each learning in order to make the learning environment much productive for each of the students.