Biochemistry flashcards work best when each card asks for one clear fact and makes you retrieve it before revealing the answer. This deck covers enzyme kinetics, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, the urea cycle, haemoglobin and oxidative phosphorylation. It is a starting set for biomedical science revision, not a substitute for your course’s learning outcomes or notes.
How to work through this deck
Take each question in order. Try to answer it aloud or silently before you reveal the reverse. Compare your answer with the wording on the card, then grade your recall: choose Again if you could not retrieve the fact, Hard if you got it with difficulty, Good if you answered correctly, or Easy if it came quickly and accurately. Be strict about details such as direction of change, molecule names and quantities.
The grades help space out later reviews. A card you miss should return sooner; one you know securely can wait longer. Do not treat a familiar-looking question as proof of recall: answer it from memory before turning it. A MySummaries deck on this topic could look like this:
For Michaelis–Menten kinetics, what does Km represent?
The substrate concentration at which reaction velocity is half of Vmax.
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The cards mix definitions, enzyme regulation, pathway yields and cause-and-effect. For each one, check whether you recalled the complete answer. For example, “competitive inhibition raises Km” is incomplete unless you also remember that Vmax remains unchanged. On the gluconeogenesis card, the bypass is a two-enzyme route, not a single replacement for pyruvate kinase.
Check the core before moving on
After the first pass, group the facts into pathways and ask whether you can explain the connection between them. Glycolysis produces pyruvate; when oxygen is limited, lactate dehydrogenase helps regenerate NAD+ so glycolysis can continue. In aerobic metabolism, pyruvate dehydrogenase links glycolysis to acetyl-CoA, which enters the citric acid cycle. The reducing equivalents then supply electrons to the respiratory chain.
A compact “Must not miss core” drawn from this deck might look like this:
Use this short list as a retrieval check, not as a replacement for the cards. Cover the items with your hand or scroll past them, then say each one from memory. If an item is vague, return to the specific card and repair the missing detail. When your course uses a different level of pathway detail, add cards from your own lecture notes rather than assuming this core is exhaustive.
Repair repeated misses
A missed card is useful information: it points to a fact that needs another attempt. If you miss the same concept repeatedly, check whether the problem is recall or understanding. For instance, if you confuse Km and Vmax, draw a simple enzyme-rate graph and explain what changes when substrate concentration is plotted against velocity. Then review both inhibition cards again.
A remediation prompt can turn a repeated error into a precise next action. A MySummaries tray for this deck might contain:
You lost this mark twice: for each acetyl-CoA entering the citric acid cycle, state the numbers of NADH, FADH2, GTP and CO2 produced.
Answer the prompt, then check the relevant card and core item. If the answer is still incomplete, make a small comparison in your notes—for example, list the outputs per acetyl-CoA separately from the outputs per glucose. This prevents a correct pathway fact being applied at the wrong scale.
Review with spacing and context
Work through the deck in short sessions, revisiting due cards before adding many new ones. After a review, choose a few cards and connect them in a spoken explanation: regulation of glycolysis, the fate of pyruvate, or how electron transfer supports ATP synthesis. This tests whether isolated facts can be used together, while keeping the flashcards focused on one answer at a time.
Once these cards are secure, extend the deck from your own materials. Add the reaction direction, tissue context or clinical connection only where your course requires it, and keep each card answer narrow enough to grade reliably. For numerical yields, label the unit of comparison—per glucose, per acetyl-CoA or per fatty acid—so you do not memorise a number without its context.
How MySummaries helps
MySummaries builds revision boards from your own PDFs, slides and photographed notes, then turns board content into spaced-repetition cards. You can organise these biochemistry facts alongside your course material and review the cards that are due in MySummaries.