Metabolism in 3D
Teaching the design principles of metabolism - pp497 - 501
Joshua D Rabinowitz & Livia Vastag
doi:10.1038/nchembio.969
Learning metabolism inevitably involves memorizing pathways. The teacher's challenge is to motivate memorization and to help students progress beyond it. To this end, students should be taught a few fundamental chemical reaction mechanisms and how these are repeatedly used to achieve pathway goals. Pathway knowledge should then be reinforced through quantitative problems that emphasize the relevance of metabolism to bioengineering and medicine.
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