This course is designed to give the allied health students basic cognitive knowledge of the: • Basic concepts of biochemistry covering structural and functional characteristics of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, nucleic acid, enzymes, hormones, vitamins, and minerals Relationship between protein structure and its biological function, generation, and storage of metabolic energy, main metabolic pathways, and their key steps. • Biochemistry of connective tissue and role of Bone and mineral metabolism