Veterinary Biochemistry VET241

This unit reteaches you everything from high school biology but all those details your biology teacher skipped over suddenly become crucially important (such as learning every single component of the glycolytic pathway). But don't let that get you down, just know the reader back to front then sit back and enjoy Graham Gardner's humour and well defined ante brachial muscles (you can revise your anatomy on this guy.

Assessments
The final exam always involves completely drawing out one of the metabolic pathways, so know all these by heart and you've got yourself a guaranteed 15 marks. Also know starvation and well fed state back to front. Pay attention in lectures, if the lecturer says it's important it will be an exam question. There are some group assignments, don't put in too much time, they're only 5%.

Workload
Go to tutorials, they make things make sense. Otherwise, this unit is easy to do well in if you're willing to put in the hours. If your not, and 50% is cool with you, minimum effort will probably suffice. Although it helps to retain something for later years.

Overall Positives
Graham and David are great, If you can slog through the protein and DNA stuff to begin with I thought the metabolic cycles were great. But I'm a nerd.

Overall Negatives
Can be a little boring, but it pays to put in the effort.