The course aims to provide students with the physical, chemical and biological basis of biomolecules and the reactions/metabolic pathways in which they are involved. Highlight the relationship between structure and function of the major classes of macromolecules, and frame the metabolic regulation at molecular and cellular level. Contextualize the sequential connections between the various above-mentioned processes. The student will achieve knowledge on the role played by enzymatic catalysis in the phenomenon of life. The structure-function relationships of biological molecules and processes involved in their synthesis. The thermodynamic aspects of cellular metabolism and its regulatation