Metabolism: Diet & Nutrition Lecture Materials from the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom

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Metabolism: Diet & Nutrition Lecture Materials

These are the Diet & Nutrition Lecture materials of the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom. The resources below are used to supplement an actual college cell biology course. Anyone taking, teaching or interested in biology may find these materials helpful and is welcome to use them.

The Diet & Nutrition Lecture materials include:

a list of learning objectives

a PowerPoint lecture

practice test questions

review questions

term paper metabolism assignment

links to additional educational resources

METABOLISM: DIET & NUTRITION LECTURE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

These lecture learning objectives are a study guide based on the VCBC Metabolism: Diets & Nutrition Lecture PowerPoint:

What is a food calorie (kilocalorie)?

Understand how many food calories (kilocalories) are in a gram of carbohydrate, protein & fat.

What are macronutrients and micronutrients?

What is the relationship between carbohydrates and fiber?

What is the difference between complete and incomplete proteins?

What are the differences between saturated and unsaturated fats? Are all fats bad? Which type is healthier?

What are essential fatty acids?

How do you calculate the calories in alcohol?

What is the difference between vitamins & minerals?

METABOLISM: DIET & NUTRITION LECTURE POWERPOINT

All of the lecture PowerPoints used in the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom have fill-in-the-blanks on many of the slides to encourage students to pay attention and follow along during the presentation. Instructors, contact us for the information that goes in the blanks.

HELPFUL TIPS: Some of the PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a few moments to download, depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you are printing a hard copy of the PowerPoint, you can save paper by selecting Handouts (rather than Slides) in the "Print What:" drop down menu of the PPT print screen. Then you can choose the number of slides you want to have on each printed page. If the printed PPT presentation is to be used as student notes, it is best to choose handouts with 2 or 3 slides per page.

METABOLISM: DIET & NUTRITION PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS

Practice test questions designed to help students better understand the material from this lecture. They are based on information in the Diet & Nutrition PowerPoint Lecture.

METABOLISM: DIET & NUTRITION REVIEW QUESTIONS

Questions designed to help students review the material in the Diet & Nutrition Lecture.

METABOLISM PROJECT PAPER

Word document instructions for writing a paper on the relationship between metabolism and nutrition. Allows students to choose one of three options. The Calorie King website has a food database to help you with finding grams of carbohydrates, fiber, protein & fats of common food items, for Option 1 of this project.

MORE METABOLISM: DIET & NUTRITION LINKS

Cellular Respiration animation by Jay Phelan, “What is Life? A Guide to Biology”, W. H. Freeman & Co.

Food Molecules video from HowStuffWorks, a Discovery company.

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