Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
BCH242Y1
Introduction to Biochemistry
What was the average?
B+
3.3 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Fall 2026 - Winter 2027.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Low
A small number of terms, so read it as a range.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceThis introductory course in biochemistry will serve as the foundation for upper-level BCH courses taken by students specializing in biochemistry and related specialist programs. The major topics include protein structure, enzyme mechanisms and function, gene expression, lipid and membrane structure and function, and the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids for energy production. Laboratory techniques will also be introduced to understand the role of biochemistry for research. Please note that there are five laboratories accompanying this course. (Lab fees: approximately $11)
- Exclusions
- BCH210H1BCH311H1BIOC12H3BIOC13H3CHM361H5CHM362H5CHMB62H3
- Contact hours
- 64 lecture · 18 practical · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Fall 2026 - Winter 20271 term observed
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This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | Faculty of Arts & Science | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 1 term | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
32 courses list BCH242Y1 as a prerequisiteThe other 19 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names BCH242Y1 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what BCH242Y1 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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