This is a first introduction to biochemistry for a-level students with a hands on problem solving task. It includes: Comparison of biochemistry and biomedicine degrees Slides explaining meiosis and recombination A task on linkage analysis, the students must use what they have been taught about recombination and some data provided to work out the distance between two genes in map units The format of the biochemistry degree at Oxford is explained

Powerpoint for an hour long session to introduce and intrerest students in biochemistry. It details what a biochemistry degree entails and teaches about the basics of protein folding. There is an interactive task that gets students to fold wire into into primary, secondary and tertiary structures of a protein and explore what happens when their protein ‘denatures’.