Reduction potential In Biology

Fundamental concepts of physics and chemistry govern nearly every concept of biology. There are few of the phenomenon like entropy, free energy and reduction potential are the central players of different biological processes.

This is a very interesting course which discusses the concept of reduction potential and the grand designs of biological system depending upon reduction potential. In this course students learn about the detailed definition of reduction potential and apply the definition with few biological examples. On one side, We will talk to muscles and lactic acid bacteria to understand the importance of oxidation reduction for cellular survival and on the other side we will learn how the transfer of electrons is controlled by the difference in reduction potential values of biochemical species.

After the basic discussion, the course will praise the complex design of photosynthesis in terms of over all biochemical process and design of light reaction. Students will learn that how the values of reduction potential are modulated to efficiently run the light reaction and how the Z-scheme of photosynthesis is actually a graph depicting the values of reduction potential.

This course will further discuss another grand design of biological system, that is mitochondrial electron transport which again depends upon the reduction potential values of various proteins complexes.

Finally this course ends with summarizing the whole life in terms of reduction potential which sheds a light beauty on mother nature’s designs.

This course is perfect for the students who wish to make there fundamental very strong in the field of biology and biochemistry. The beauty of the course is that the concepts are explained in very logical manner and through out the discussions mother nature is praised for her vision and style.