Course Detail

Course Title  Chemistry of Life
Course Code  HW 1203
Credit  4
Semester Offered  1
Duration of Courses  
Degree  Undergraduate
Programme  Bachelor of Health Science
Course Description  The module encompass topics: oxygen and carbon dioxide transport and exchange, control of respiration, aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, classes of nutrients, basal metabolic rate, body mass index, physiological effects of fasting and starvation, iron deficiency anaemia, water and electrolyte balance and imbalance due to vomiting and diarrhoea, renal control of water and electrolytes, renal failure, pH balance, metabolic alkalosis and acidosis, glucose metabolism and diabetes, nuclear and cell divisions, genetic disorders, thalassaemia, Down's syndrome, undifferentiated, unregulated cell division, tumour formation, infection and defence
Prerequisite  None
Other Description  For degree in Midwifery
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