2018, Number 3
Rev Educ Bioquimica 2018; 37 (3)
Amino-estructura: una propuesta pedagógica para el aprendizaje de los veinte aminoácidos que comúnmente se encuentran en las proteínas
Vega GJC
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ABSTRACT
One of the main tasks for a biochemistry student is learning the names, structures, and abbreviations of one and three letters of the twenty amino acids commonly found in proteins. Teaching amino acids has become a real pedagogical challenge because many students learn this subject as an exercise in memorization, and worse yet many teachers teach it this way, but mere repetition has no meaning or academic merit. This approach neither reinforces learning nor allows students to recognize the relationships between the structure and function of amino acids nor their transformation within a metabolic pathway. To aid in teaching and to learn the structure of the twenty amino acids commonly found in proteins, the Amino Structure application was developed. This article shows how to obtain and use it, as well as the pedagogical proposal for its use.REFERENCES